Abstract

We suggest and demonstrate an approach to generate a femtosecond multi-terawatt pulse train at repetition rate of 100 MHz in a 10-Hz chirped pulse amplification Ti:sapphire laser system. With an electro-optic Q-switch regenerative amplifier, we can obtain an adjustable repetition-rate chirped pulse train. After amplification and compression, the 100-MHz pulse train with 46-fs pulse width and 1-TW peak power per pulse is obtained in our 10-TW-class Ti:sapphire laser system.

© 2007 Chinese Optics Letters

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