25TW Ti:sapphire laser chain at PALS

0390695 - FZÚ 2013 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Hřebíček, Jan - Rus, Bedřich - Lagron, J.C. - Polan, Jiří - Havlíček, Tomáš - Mocek, Tomáš - Nejdl, Jaroslav - Pešlo, M.
25TW Ti:sapphire laser chain at PALS.
Diode-pumped High Energy and High Power Lasers ELI: Ultrarelativistic Laser-matter Interactions and Petawatt Photonics and HiPER: the European Pathway to Laser Energy. Bellingham: SPIE, 2011 - (Hein, J.; Silva, L.; Korn, G.; Gizz, L.; Edwards, C.), 8080OU/1-8080OU/6. Proceedings of the SPIE, 8080. ISBN 9780819486707.
[Diode-Pumped High Energy and High Power Lasers; ELI: Ultrarelativistic Laser-Matter Interactions and Petawatt Photonics. Prague (CZ), 18.04.2011-20.04.2011]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT ED1.1.00/02.0061; GA MŠMT ED2.1.00/01.0027
Grant - others:ELI Beamlines(XE) CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0061; HILASE(XE) CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0027; AVČR(CZ) M100100911
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : laser * high power * pulses * ELI * PALS
Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers

We present an overview of the Ti:sapphire laser chain recently commissioned at the PALS laboratory. The laser is based on commercial laser units and of an in-house-designed-and-built compressor. The system provides peak power of 25 TW in <40-fs pulses and delivers up to 0.9 J on the target in the main beam, at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The laser chain employs conventional CPA amplification technique consisting of oscillator, stretcher, regenerative amplifier, pulse picker, and multipass amplifier, followed by compressor.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0219560