Abstract
We have developed a silver-mirror-based multipass preamplifier for a broadband amplification in a terawatt Ti:sapphire laser. With the extremely broad bandwidth of the silver mirrors, a very broad amplified spectrum can be generated at an amplified energy of ; the amplified spectral width is at half maximum and at without any spectral shaping technique. Such a broad amplification can be explained well by the simulation that includes gain narrowing and gain saturation. Even after a further amplification to an energy of , the amplified spectrum is broad enough to support an transform-limited pulse duration.
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