Abstract
We report on a high-contrast, high-intensity Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification system that incorporates a nonlinear preamplifier based on optical parametric chirped- pulse amplification (OPCPA). Chirped-pulses are amplified to 63 J at 0.1 Hz and compressed down to 30 fs. The temporal contrast is better than 3×10−12 on the sub-nanosecond timescale. A peak intensity of 1022 W/cm2 on target is reached by focusing a wavefront corrected 0.3 PW laser beam with an f/1.3 off-axis parabolic mirror.
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