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A terawatt Nd:glass chirped pulse amplification laser system seeded by two order optical parametric amplification

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We present the performance of a high-power Nd:glass laser system, which produces a 1.1 J, 250 fs, 7.3 nm broadband laser pulse based on the combination of optical parametric amplification (OPA) and chirped pulse amplification (CPA). The two-stage OPA provides broadband seed pulses for the three-stage Nd:glass amplifiers based on the technology of CPA. Compared to the conventional oscillator seed source, the most important advantage of such a seed source supplied by the two-stage OPA is that it possesses the capacities of broad bandwidth and high energy.

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  1. Key Laboratory for Micro-/Nano-Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education and College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    LiFu Zhang, XiQuan Fu, JianQin Deng, Jin Zhang, ShuangChun Wen & DianYuan Fan

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Zhang, L., Fu, X., Deng, J. et al. A terawatt Nd:glass chirped pulse amplification laser system seeded by two order optical parametric amplification. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 55, 776–780 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-012-4700-2

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