ARCTURUS laser: a versatile high-contrast, high-power multi-beam laser system

With the latest configuration, the Ti:Sa laser system ARCTURUS (Düsseldorf University, Germany) operates with a double-chirped pulse amplification (CPA) architecture delivering pulses with an energy of 7 J before compression in each of the two high-power beams. By the implementation of a plasma mirr...

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Published in:High power laser science and engineering 2019, Vol.7, Article e37
Main Authors: Cerchez, M., Prasad, R., Aurand, B., Giesecke, A. L., Spickermann, S., Brauckmann, S., Aktan, E., Swantusch, M., Toncian, M., Toncian, T., Willi, O.
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Language:English
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Configurations
Design
Energy
High power lasers
Infrastructure
Laboratories
Laser beams
Lasers
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Summary:With the latest configuration, the Ti:Sa laser system ARCTURUS (Düsseldorf University, Germany) operates with a double-chirped pulse amplification (CPA) architecture delivering pulses with an energy of 7 J before compression in each of the two high-power beams. By the implementation of a plasma mirror system, the intrinsic laser contrast is enhanced up to $10^{-12}$ on a time scale of hundreds of picoseconds, before the main peak. The laser system has been used in various configurations for advanced experiments and different studies have been carried out employing the high-power laser beams as a single, high-intensity interaction beam ( $I\approx 10^{20}~\text{W}/\text{cm}^{2}$ ), in dual- and multi-beam configurations or in a pump–probe arrangement.
ISSN:2095-4719
2052-3289
DOI:10.1017/hpl.2019.21