The eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies project aimed to create a large scientific infrastructure based on lasers with giant peak power.The project relies on the significant progress achieved in the last decade.T...The eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies project aimed to create a large scientific infrastructure based on lasers with giant peak power.The project relies on the significant progress achieved in the last decade.The planned infrastructure will incorporate a unique light source with a pulse power of 600 PW using optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in large-aperture KD_(2)PO_(4),deuterated potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals.The interaction of such laser radiation with matter represents a completely new fundamental physics.The direct study of the space-time structure of vacuums and other unknown phenomena at the frontier of high-energy physics and the physics of superstrong fields will be challenged.Expected applications will include the development of compact particle accelerators,the generation of ultrashort pulses of hard X-ray and gamma radiation for material science enabling one to probe material samples with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution,the development of new radiation and particle sources,etc.The paper is translation from Russian[Kvantovaya Elektronika 53,95(2023)].展开更多
It was shown experimentally that for a 65-fs 17-J pulse,the effect of filamentation instability,also known as small-scale self-focusing,is much weaker than that predicted by stationary and nonstationary theoretical mo...It was shown experimentally that for a 65-fs 17-J pulse,the effect of filamentation instability,also known as small-scale self-focusing,is much weaker than that predicted by stationary and nonstationary theoretical models for high B-integral values.Although this discrepancy has been left unexplained at the moment,in practice no signs of filamentation may allow a breakthrough in nonlinear pulse post-compression at high laser energy.展开更多
The input pulse of the laser PEARL with energy of 18 J and pulse duration of about 60 fs was compressed to 10 fs after passage through a 4-mm-thick KDP crystal and reflection at two chirped mirrors with sum dispersion...The input pulse of the laser PEARL with energy of 18 J and pulse duration of about 60 fs was compressed to 10 fs after passage through a 4-mm-thick KDP crystal and reflection at two chirped mirrors with sum dispersion of-200 fs^(2).The experiments were performed for the B-integral values from 5 to 19 without visible damage to the optical elements,which indicates that small-scale self-focusing is not a significant issue.It was shown that,by virtue of the low dispersion of the group velocity,the KDP crystal has some advantages over silica:a larger pulse compression coefficient,especially at a small value of the B-integral(B=5,...,9),lower absolute values of chirped mirror dispersion,and also a possibility to control the magnitude of nonlinearity and dispersion by changing crystal orientation.展开更多
基金supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation(Project No.0030-2021-0015)
文摘The eXawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies project aimed to create a large scientific infrastructure based on lasers with giant peak power.The project relies on the significant progress achieved in the last decade.The planned infrastructure will incorporate a unique light source with a pulse power of 600 PW using optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in large-aperture KD_(2)PO_(4),deuterated potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals.The interaction of such laser radiation with matter represents a completely new fundamental physics.The direct study of the space-time structure of vacuums and other unknown phenomena at the frontier of high-energy physics and the physics of superstrong fields will be challenged.Expected applications will include the development of compact particle accelerators,the generation of ultrashort pulses of hard X-ray and gamma radiation for material science enabling one to probe material samples with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution,the development of new radiation and particle sources,etc.The paper is translation from Russian[Kvantovaya Elektronika 53,95(2023)].
基金This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No.075-15-2020-906(Center of Excellence‘Center of Photonics’).
文摘It was shown experimentally that for a 65-fs 17-J pulse,the effect of filamentation instability,also known as small-scale self-focusing,is much weaker than that predicted by stationary and nonstationary theoretical models for high B-integral values.Although this discrepancy has been left unexplained at the moment,in practice no signs of filamentation may allow a breakthrough in nonlinear pulse post-compression at high laser energy.
基金supported by the Center of Excellence“Center of Photonics”funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation,agreement No.075-152020-906by the European Commission,grant agreement#871072-CREMLINplus。
文摘The input pulse of the laser PEARL with energy of 18 J and pulse duration of about 60 fs was compressed to 10 fs after passage through a 4-mm-thick KDP crystal and reflection at two chirped mirrors with sum dispersion of-200 fs^(2).The experiments were performed for the B-integral values from 5 to 19 without visible damage to the optical elements,which indicates that small-scale self-focusing is not a significant issue.It was shown that,by virtue of the low dispersion of the group velocity,the KDP crystal has some advantages over silica:a larger pulse compression coefficient,especially at a small value of the B-integral(B=5,...,9),lower absolute values of chirped mirror dispersion,and also a possibility to control the magnitude of nonlinearity and dispersion by changing crystal orientation.
