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The Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF) Project

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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XVI

Part of the book series: Topics in Applied Physics ((TAP,volume 141))

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We report the recent progress on the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF) project. The schematic design of SULF is described. The upgrade information from SULF laser prototype to SULF 10 PW laser user facility  is presented in detail. A high contrast front is developed to generate high-quality clean seed pulses which are then stretched to about 2 ns by a new double-grating Öffner stretcher. A Dazzler is used to control the high-order phase distortions and shape the spectrum of the laser pulses simultaneously. The laser pulses are amplified to 7 J energy in the 1 Hz pre-amplifiers system before injected into the three stages large aperture main amplifiers system. The first two main amplifiers are pumped by five commercial lasers which can  be operated at 1 shot/min. The final main amplifier is pumped by six home-built high energy frequency doubled Nd:glass lasers at a repetition rate of 1 shot/3 min. The final amplifier output energy is ~408 J with high stability under a pump energy of ~530 J. Compressed pulse duration of the amplified laser and the total transport efficiency for compression is measured to be 22.4 fs and 70.52% respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that SULF user facility has the capacity to deliver 10 PW peak power femtosecond pulses.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics(SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Shanghai, 201800, China

    Zebiao Gan, Lianghong Yu, Cheng Wang, Yanqi Liu, Yi Xu, Wenqi Li, Shuai Li, Linpeng Yu, Xinliang Wang, Xinyan Liu, Junchi Chen, Yujie Peng, Lu Xu, Bo Yao, Xiaobo Zhang, Lingru Chen, Yunhai Tang, Xiaobin Wang, Dinjun Yin, Xiaoyan Liang, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li & Zhizhan Xu

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Gan, Z. et al. (2021). The Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF) Project. In: Yamanouchi, K., Midorikawa, K., Roso, L. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XVI. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75089-3_10

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