Optical amplifiers: Highest peak power and excellent stability
Monday, July 6, 2020 - 16:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Optical amplifiers based on chirped pulse amplification (CPA) are used to generate high intensity pulses. In the CPA scheme, a weak temporally stretched seed pulse is amplified to high energy in a laser amplifier and finally re-compressed resulting in an ultrashort pulse of very high intensity.