Abstract
We have developed a 1.5-TW Ti:sapphire/Nd:glass chirped-pulse amplification system. The laser produces 640-mJ, 400-fs pulses. By using a passive pulse cleaning stage a power contrast ratio of 106 has been obtained.
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