Abstract

We demonstrate the highest intensity - 300 TW laser by developing booster amplifying stage to the 50-TW-Ti:sapphire laser (HERCULES). To our knowledge this is the first multi-100TW-scale laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate.

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History
Original Manuscript: December 21, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: January 28, 2008
Revised Manuscript: January 28, 2008
Published: January 30, 2008

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Author Affiliations

G. Cheriaux, G. Mourou

CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique

V. Yanovsky, V. Chvykov, G. Kalinchenko, P. Rousseau, T. Planchon, T. Matsuoka, A. Maksimchuk, J. Nees, K. Krushelnick

University of Michigan

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