Development of a PW class OPCPA beamline for the Vulcan Laser Facility (Conference Presentation)

Ian Musgrave; Giedre Archipovaite; Steve Blake; Nicola Booth; Oleg Chekhlov; Rob Clarke; Rob Heathcote; Cristina Hernandez-Gomez; Marco Galimberti; Mario Galletti; Pedro Oliveira; Dave Neely; Waseem Shaikh; Trevor Winstone; John Collier; Brian Wyborn

doi:10.1117/12.2523890

13 May 2019 Development of a PW class OPCPA beamline for the Vulcan Laser Facility (Conference Presentation)

Ian Musgrave, Giedre Archipovaite, Steve Blake, Nicola Booth, Oleg Chekhlov, Rob Clarke, Rob Heathcote, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Marco Galimberti, Mario Galletti, Pedro Oliveira, Dave Neely, Waseem Shaikh, Trevor Winstone, John Collier, Brian Wyborn

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Proceedings Volume 11034, Short-pulse High-energy Lasers and Ultrafast Optical Technologies; 110340K (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2523890
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

The Petawatt beamline at the Vulcan laser facility is capable of delivering pulses with 500J of energy in <500fs, and has been operational as a user facility since 2003; being used to study laser matter interactions under extreme conditions. In addition to this short-pulse beamline there is a single long pulse beamline capable of 250J with durations from 0.5 to 6ns. In this paper we present our plans to add an auxiliary beamline to this facility based on Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) using LBO as the non-linear crystal. This new beamline will have a dedicated laser area where the seed will be generated, stretched and amplified before being transported to the target area for compression and delivery to target. The beamline will be implemented in 2 phases the first phase will see the development of a 7J <30fs capability with the second phase increasing the delivered energy to 30J. This additional beamline will open up the potential for novel pump probe experiments when operated with the existing PW and long pulse beamlines.

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Ian Musgrave, Giedre Archipovaite, Steve Blake, Nicola Booth, Oleg Chekhlov, Rob Clarke, Rob Heathcote, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Marco Galimberti, Mario Galletti, Pedro Oliveira, Dave Neely, Waseem Shaikh, Trevor Winstone, John Collier, and Brian Wyborn "Development of a PW class OPCPA beamline for the Vulcan Laser Facility (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11034, Short-pulse High-energy Lasers and Ultrafast Optical Technologies, 110340K (13 May 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2523890

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