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Extreme light fields and their applications
Enhancement of temporal contrast of high-power laser pulses in an anisotropic medium with cubic nonlinearity
M. S. Kuz'mina, E. A. Khazanov Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod
Abstract:
We consider the methods for enhancing the temporal contrast of super-high-power laser pulses, based on the conversion of radiation polarisation in a medium with cubic nonlinearity. For a medium with weak birefringence and isotropic nonlinearity, we propose a new scheme to enhance the temporal contrast. For a medium with anisotropic nonlinearity, the efficiency of the temporal contrast optimisation is shown to depend not only on the spatial orientation of the crystal and B-integral, but also on the type of the crystal lattice symmetry.
Keywords:
temporal contrast, femtosecond laser pulses, anisotropic medium with cubic nonlinearity, B-integral.
Received: 29.01.2015 Revised: 10.02.2015
Citation:
M. S. Kuz'mina, E. A. Khazanov, “Enhancement of temporal contrast of high-power laser pulses in an anisotropic medium with cubic nonlinearity”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 45:5 (2015), 426–433 [Quantum Electron., 45:5 (2015), 426–433]
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