Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that the “coherent” contrast pedestal in compressed pulses from CPA lasers originates from the diffraction gratings in the pulse stretcher. The pedestal intensity correlates with the level of scatter from the gratings.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
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