Here,we report the recent progress on the front end developed for the 100 PW-class laser facility.Using 3 stages of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification(OPCPA)based on lithium triborate(LBO)crystals,we reali...Here,we report the recent progress on the front end developed for the 100 PW-class laser facility.Using 3 stages of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification(OPCPA)based on lithium triborate(LBO)crystals,we realized a 5.26 J/0.1 Hz amplified output with a bandwidth over 200 nm near the center wavelength of 925 nm.After the compressor,we obtained a pulse duration of 13.4 fs.As the compression efficiency reached 67%,this OPCPA front end could potentially support a peak power of 263 TW at a repetition rate of 0.1 Hz.To the best of our knowledge,among all the 100 TW-level OPCPA systems,it shows the widest spectral width,the shortest pulse duration,and it is also the first OPCPA system working at a repetition-rate mode.展开更多
基金Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2017SHZDZX02)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(20ZR1464600)+5 种基金This work is funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFE0123700)Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader(18XD1404200)and International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(181231KYSB20200040)Shanghai Sailing Program(19YF1453100)National Natural Science Foundation of China(61925507)Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB1603)。
文摘Here,we report the recent progress on the front end developed for the 100 PW-class laser facility.Using 3 stages of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification(OPCPA)based on lithium triborate(LBO)crystals,we realized a 5.26 J/0.1 Hz amplified output with a bandwidth over 200 nm near the center wavelength of 925 nm.After the compressor,we obtained a pulse duration of 13.4 fs.As the compression efficiency reached 67%,this OPCPA front end could potentially support a peak power of 263 TW at a repetition rate of 0.1 Hz.To the best of our knowledge,among all the 100 TW-level OPCPA systems,it shows the widest spectral width,the shortest pulse duration,and it is also the first OPCPA system working at a repetition-rate mode.