TY - JOUR
T1 - Exawatt-Zettawatt pulse generation and applications
AU - Mourou, G. A.
AU - Fisch, N. J.
AU - Malkin, V. M.
AU - Toroker, Z.
AU - Khazanov, E. A.
AU - Sergeev, A. M.
AU - Tajima, T.
AU - Le Garrec, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The work was supported, in part, through DOE Research Grant No. DE-AC02-09CH11466 and through the NNSA SSAA Program through DOE Research Grant No. DE274-FG52-08NA28553 , Gérard Mourou was supported by the Fondation de l'Ecole Polytechnique and ELI 212105 T.T. was supported in part by the Blaise Pascal Foundation and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Cluster of Excellence MAP (Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics) . The authors wants to thank Natalia Naumova and Bianca Jackson for helpful discussions.
PY - 2012/3/1
Y1 - 2012/3/1
N2 - A new amplification method, weaving the three basic compression techniques, Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) and Plasma Compression by Backward Raman Amplification (BRA) in plasma, is proposed. It is called C 3 for Cascaded Conversion Compression. It has the capability to compress with good efficiency kilojoule to megajoule, nanosecond laser pulses into femtosecond pulses, to produce exawatt-and-beyond peak power. In the future, C 3 could be used at large-scale facilities such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) or the Laser Megajoule (LMJ) and open the way to zettawatt level pulses. The beam will be focused to a wavelength spot size with a f#1. The very small beam size, i.e. few centimeters, along with the low laser repetition rate laser system will make possible the use of inexpensive, precision, disposable optics. The resulting intensity will approach the Schwinger value, thus opening up new possibilities in fundamental physics.
AB - A new amplification method, weaving the three basic compression techniques, Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) and Plasma Compression by Backward Raman Amplification (BRA) in plasma, is proposed. It is called C 3 for Cascaded Conversion Compression. It has the capability to compress with good efficiency kilojoule to megajoule, nanosecond laser pulses into femtosecond pulses, to produce exawatt-and-beyond peak power. In the future, C 3 could be used at large-scale facilities such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) or the Laser Megajoule (LMJ) and open the way to zettawatt level pulses. The beam will be focused to a wavelength spot size with a f#1. The very small beam size, i.e. few centimeters, along with the low laser repetition rate laser system will make possible the use of inexpensive, precision, disposable optics. The resulting intensity will approach the Schwinger value, thus opening up new possibilities in fundamental physics.
KW - High energy laser pulses
KW - Plasma optics
KW - Relativistic optics
KW - Ultrafast lasers
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U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2011.10.089
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2011.10.089
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84655170000
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 285
SP - 720
EP - 724
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 5
ER -