Ensuring compactness, reliability, and scalability for the nextgeneration of high-field lasers

摘要

If further developments in high-field lasers are to be accessiblento universities and institutes, new laser materials and phase controlntechniques, which will result in compact, reliable systems with highernpeak power, must be adopted. The choice of high-saturation-fluence gainnmaterial and the measurement and active control of temporal and spatialnphase distortions for compact chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) systemsnof the future are discussed. Using the proper material and phase controlna focused intensity of 1025 W/cm2 is theoreticallynpossible