Production of picosecond, kilojoule, and petawatt laser pulses via raman amplification of nanosecond pulses

R. M. G. M. Trines; F. Fiuza; R. Bingham; R. A. Fonseca; L. O. Silva; R. A. Cairns; P. A. Norreys

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.105002

Production of picosecond, kilojoule, and petawatt laser pulses via raman amplification of nanosecond pulses

R. M. G. M. Trines, F. Fiuza, R. Bingham, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva, R. A. Cairns, P. A. Norreys

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Abstract

Raman amplification in plasma has been promoted as a means of compressing picosecond optical laser pulses to femtosecond duration to explore the intensity frontier. Here we show for the first time that it can be used, with equal success, to compress laser pulses from nanosecond to picosecond duration. Simulations show up to 60% energy transfer from pump pulse to probe pulse, implying that multikilojoule ultraviolet petawatt laser pulses can be produced using this scheme. This has important consequences for the demonstration of fast-ignition inertial confinement fusion.

Original language	English
Article number	105002
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.105002
Publication status	Published - 31 Aug 2011

Keywords

production
picosecond
petawatt
kilojoule
laser pulses
raman amplification
nanosecond pulses

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Instabilities in non-thermal plasmas
Phelps, A., Bingham, R., Ronald, K. & Speirs, D.
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Beam driven instabilities in magnetized plasmas
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Production of picosecond, kilojoule, and petawatt laser pulses via raman amplification of nanosecond pulses

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