Abstract
We construct a dual OPCPA scheme with a picosecond OPA for seeding the Vulcan pre-amplifier demonstrating a 103 nanosecond contrast improvement. We provide evidence that the nanosecond contrast of this preamplifier is ~5*10−10.
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