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Comprehensive experimental evaluation of temporal contrast enhancement techniques applied to the petawatt-class J-KAREN-P laser system

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Author(s)
Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Sagisaka, Akito; Miyasaka, Yasuhiro; Kon, Akira; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Pirozhkov, Alexander S.; Fukuda, Yuji; Ogura, Koichi; Kondo, Kotaro; Nakanii, Nobuhiko; Mashiba, Yuji; Dover, Nicholas P.; Chang, Liu; Bock, Stefan; Ziegler, Tim; Puschel, Thomas; Zeil, Karl; Schramm, Ulrich; Choi, Il Woo; Nam, Chang Hee
Type
Article
Citation
ADVANCED PHOTONICS NEXUS, v.4, no.6
Issued Date
2025-11
Abstract
We present a systematic experimental investigation of temporal contrast enhancement techniques for petawatt (PW)-class Ti:sapphire lasers utilizing a double chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) architecture. Particular attention is given to pre-pulses induced by post-pulses originating in the first CPA stage. One conventional and two advanced pulse-cleaning strategies are quantitatively evaluated: (i) a saturable absorber (SA), (ii) a femtosecond optical parametric amplifier (OPA) employing the idler pulse in a two-stage configuration, and (iii) sum-frequency generation (SFG) combining the signal and idler pulses from the OPA. All techniques are implemented and evaluated using the J-KAREN-P laser system with an output energy of about 20 J. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to directly and systematically compare the contrast of pre-pulses originating from the first CPA stage under identical experimental conditions in a high-energy PW-class laser facility. The results offer crucial insights into contrast optimization for future high-field applications.
Publisher
SPIE
ISSN
2791-1519
DOI
10.1117/1.APN.4.6.066011
URI
https://scholar.gist.ac.kr/handle/local/33876
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