High-contrast 10-fs OPCPA-based Front-End for the Apollon-10PW laser (Orale)

Dimitrios N. Papadopoulos (1) , Patricia Ramirez (2) , A Pellegrina (1) , N. Lebas (1) , Catherine Leblanc (1) , Gilles Cheriaux (1) , J-P Zou (1) , G. Mennerat (3) , P. Monot (3) , F. Mathieu (1) , P Audebert (1) , Patrick Georges (2) , Frédéric Druon (2)

1 LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers
3 LIDyl - Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (ex SPAM)

We present a high-contrast 10-fs Front-End for Ti:sapphire PW-lasers within the Apollon-10PW project. This injector uses OPCPA pumped at 100 Hz by Yb-based CPA chain. Combination of OPCPA and XPW permits a >10 12 contrast ratio.

Keywords: Ultrafast lasers; Ultrafast nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; parametric processes

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Dimitrios N. Papadopoulos, Patricia Ramirez, A Pellegrina, N. Lebas, Catherine Leblanc, et al.. High-contrast 10-fs OPCPA-based Front-End for the Apollon-10PW laser (Orale). Advanced Solid State Lasers 2015, Oct 2015, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-01359586⟩