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 |
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| Article number | 105002 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Aug 2011 |
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Keywords
- production
- picosecond
- petawatt
- kilojoule
- laser pulses
- raman amplification
- nanosecond pulses
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Trines, R. M. G. M., Fiuza, F., Bingham, R., Fonseca, R. A., Silva, L. O., Cairns, R. A., & Norreys, P. A. (2011). Production of picosecond, kilojoule, and petawatt laser pulses via raman amplification of nanosecond pulses. Physical Review Letters, 107(10), [105002]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.105002