High Power Pulsed Lasers

In the last decade, the power lasers can produce has increased by a factor of over one thousand times. Most ultra-high power lasers are now based on chirped pulse amplification (CPA). This revolutionary pulse-compression technique allows even small table-top lasers to produce power levels achievable with building-sized lasers of a decade ago. The power levels now achieved in many university labs is sufficient for efficient and economical plasma recombination x-ray lasers pumped by optical field ionization (OFI).

Bibliography of short pulse laser-plasma interactions

Last update: Jan 27 1997
This bibliography was compiled to supplement a recent review article written by Paul Giggon, he co-authored a paper with Eckhart Förster in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 38, p769-793, 1996. Unlike the article, which was intended as a gentle introduction for a non-specialist reader, this list is intended to be fairly comprehensive - at least as far as the interaction physics aspects are concerned. Some of the entries may be belong to more than one category, or may be misplaced.

Reviews

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Murnane, M. M., Kapteyn, H. C., Rosen, M. D., & Falcone, R. W. 1991. Ultrafast X-ray pulses from laser-produced plasmas. Science, 251, 531-536.

Interactions with overdense (solid-density) plasmas

Short pulse X-ray generation

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Propagation of intense laser pulses in plasmas

Abramyan, L. A., Litvak, A. G., Mironov, V. A., & Sergeev, A. M. 1992. Self-focusing and relativistic waveguiding of an ultrashort laser pulse in a plasma. Sov. Phys. JETP, 75, 978-982.
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X-Ray Lasers

Amendt, P., Eder, D. C., & Wilks, S. C. 1991. X-ray lasing by optical-field-induced ionization. Phys. Rev. Lett., 66, 2589-2592.
Blyth, W. J., Preston, S. G., Offenberger, A. A., Key, M. H., Wark, J. S., Najmudin, Z., Modena, A., Djaoui, A., & Dangor, A. E. 1995. Plasma temperature in optical field ionization of gases by intense ultrashort pulses of ultraviolet radiation. Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 554-557.
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Harmonic generation in plasmas

This section does not include harmonics generated in gases by multiphoton effects - see the review by L'Huillier instead.

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Plasma based particle acceleration

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Everett, M., Lal, A., Gordon, D., Clayton, C. E., Marsh, K. A., & Joshi, C. 1994. Trapped electron acceleration by a laser-driven relativistic plasma wave. Nature, 368, 527-529.
Everett, M. J., & et al. 1995. Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 1355-1358.
Gibbon, P. 1992. A numerical model of the plasma beat-wave accelerator. Comp. Phys. Commun., 69, 299-305.
Katsouleas, T., Bingham, R., & (Eds.). 1996, in press. Special issue on 2nd generation plasma accelerators. IEEE Trans. Plas. Sci.
Kitagawa, Y., Matsumoto, T., Minamihata, T., Sawai, K., Matsuo, K., Mima, K., Nishihara, K., Azechi, H., Tanaka, K. A., Takabe, H., & Nakai, S. 1992. Beat-wave excitation of plasma wave and observation of accelerated electrons. Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, 48-51.
Modena, A., Najmudin, Z., Dangor, A. E., Clayton, C. E., Marsh, K. A., Joshi, C., Malka, V., Darrow, C. B., Danson, C., Neely, D., & Walsh, F. N. 1995. Electron acceleration from the breaking of relativistic plasma waves. Nature, 377, 606-608.
Mora, P., Pesme, D., Héron, A., Laval, G., & Silvestre, N. 1988. Modulational instability and its consequences for the beat-wave accelerator. Phys. Rev. Lett., 61, 1611-1614.
Nakajima, K., Fisher, D., Kawakubo, T., Nakanishi, H, Ogata, A., Kato, Y., Kitagawa, Y., Kodama, R., Mima, K., Shiraga, H., Suzuki, K., Yamakawa, K., Zhang, T., Sakawa, Y., Shoji, T., Nishida, Y., Yugami, N., Downer, M., & Tajima, T 1995. Observation of ultrahigh gradient electron acceleration by a self-modulated intense short laser pulse. Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 4428-4431.
Sprangle, P., Esarey, E., Ting, A., & Joyce, G. 1988. Laser wakefield acceleration and relativistic optical guiding. Appl. Phys. Lett., 53, 2146-2148.
Sprangle, P., Esarey, E., & Ting, A. 1990a. Nonlinear Interaction of Intense Laser Pulses in Plasmas. Phys. Rev. A, 41, 4463-4469.
Sprangle, P., Esarey, E., & Ting, A. 1990b. Nonlinear Theory of Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions. Phys. Rev. Lett., 64, 2011-2014.
Sprangle, P., Esarey, E., Krall, J., & Joyce, G. 1992. Propagation and Guiding of Intense Laser Pulses in Plasmas. Phys. Rev. Lett., 69, 2200-2203.
(bad URL) Tajima, T., & Dawson, J. M. 1979. Laser Electron Accelerator. Phys. Rev. Lett., 43, 267-270.
Tang, C. M., Sprangle, P., & Sudan, R. N. 1984. Excitation of the plasma waves in the laser beat-wave accelerator. Appl. Phys. Lett., 45, 375-377.
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Super-dense plasmas

Edwards, J., & Rose, S. J. 1993. Ionization timescales in hot dense plasmas. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 26, L523-L527.
Furukawa, H., & Nishihara K. 1990. Phys. Rev A, 42, 3532.
(bad URL) Hansen, J.P., & McDonald, I.R. 1981. Phys. Rev A, 23, 2041.
Kato, S., Kawakami, R., & Mima, K. 1991. Phys. Rev A, 43, 5560.
Lee, Y. T., & More, R. M. 1984. An electron conductivity model for dense plasmas. Phys. Fluids, 27, 1273-1286.
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More, R. M., Warren, K. H., Young, D. A., & Zimmerman, G. B. 1988. A new quotidian equation of state (QEOS) for hot dense matter. Phys. Fluids, 31, 3059-3078.
Pfalzner, S. 1991. Statistical description of ionization potentials in dense plasmas. Appl. Phys. B, 53, 203-206.
Pfalzner, S. 1992. Field ionization in dense plasmas. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 25, L545-L549.
Pfalzner, S., & Rose, S. J. 1993. Thomas-Fermi model for dense plasmas with strong electric fields. Comp. Phys. Commun., 75, 98-104.

Laser-plasma interactions (long pulse)

Included here are a few works which predated the advent of femtosecond pulses, (motivated instead by laser fusion (ICF) applications) but which often still apply in the femtosecond regime. The best starting point for the theory of coronal plasmas in ICF is probably Kruer's book (1988).

Albritton, J., & Koch, P. 1975. Cold plasma wavebreaking: production of energetic electrons. Phys. Fluids, 18, 1136-1139.
Bezzerides, B., DuBois, D. F., & Forslund, D. W. 1977. Magnetic field generation by resonance absorption of light. Phys. Rev. A, 16, 1678-1686.
Birdsall, C.K., & Langdon, A.B. 1985. Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Bobin, J.-L. 1985. High-intensity laser plasma interaction. Phys. Reports, 122, 173-274.
Cros, B., Matthieussent, G., Godiot, J., & Heron, A. 1989. Stochastic behaviour of resonant absorption in a plasma at microwave frequencies. Europhys. Lett., 9, 41-46.
Drake, J. F., Kaw, P. K., Lee, Y. C., Schmidt, G., Liu, C. S., & Rosenbluth, M. N. 1974. Parametric instabilities of electromagnetic waves in plasmas. Phys. Fluids, 17, 778-785.
Estabrook, K. G., & Kruer, W. L. 1978. Properties of resonantly heated electron distributions. Phys. Rev. Lett, 40, 42-45.
Estabrook, K. G., Valeo, E. J., & Kruer, W. L. 1975. Two-dimensional relativistic simulations of resonance absorption. Phys. Fluids, 18, 1151-1159.
Faehl, R. J., & Roderick, N. F. 1978. Intensity dependence of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption in and inhomogeneous standing wave. Phys. Fluids, 21, 793.
Forslund, D. W., Kindel, J. M., Lee, K., Lindman, E. L., & Morse, R. L. 1975a. Theory and simulation of resonance absorption in a hot plasma. Phys. Rev. A, 11, 679-683.
Forslund, D. W., Kindel, J. M., & Lindman, E. L. 1975b. Theory of stimulated scattering processes in laser-irradiated plasmas. Phys. Fluids, 18, 1002-1016.
Forslund, D. W., Kindel, J. M., & Lee, K. 1977. Theory of hot-electron spectra at high laser intensity. Phys. Rev. Lett, 39, 284-288.
Ginzburg, V.L. 1964. The Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas. New York: Pergamon.
Hares, J. D., Kilkenny, J. D., Key, M. H., & Lunney, J. G. 1979. Measurement of fast-electron energy spectra and preheating in laser-irradiated targets. Phys. Rev. Lett., 42, 1216-1219.
Heron, A., & Adam, J. C. 1984. Pseudosolitons formation in resonant absorption of electromagnetic waves. Phys. Fluids, 27, 2005-2021.
Jones, R. D., & Lee, K. 1982. Kinetic theory, transport, and hydrodynamics of a high-Z plasma in the presence of an intense laser field. Phys. Fluids, 25, 2307.
Kindel, J. M., Lee, K., & Lindman, E. L. 1975. Surface-wave absorption. Phys. Rev. Lett., 34, 134-138.
Koch, P., & Albritton, J. 1974. Electron and ion heating through resonant plasma oscillations. Phys. Rev. Lett., 32, 1420-1423.
Kruer, W. L. 1988. The Physics of Laser Plasma Interactions. New York: Addison-Wesley.
Kruer, W. L., & Estabrook, Kent. 1985. J x B heating by very intense laser light. Phys. Fluids, 28, 430-432.
Kull, H. 1983. Linear mode conversion in laser plasmas. Phys. Fluids, 26, 1881-1887.
Spitzer Jr., L., 1962. Physics of Fully Ionized Gases. New York: John Wiley.
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Femtosecond laser technology and diagnostics

This list is woefully incomplete, and largely reflects my lack of enthusiasm for reading about diffraction gratings: there is at least one paper on femtosecond laser technology appearing per week.

The world record for the shortest pulse length is 3.8fs (from an amplifier), achieved at the Technical University of Wien (December 1997). This finally gives a 6fs pulse length output from the laser. (Thanks to Tilia Stingl from TUW for this information)

Last Revised : October 28 1998

Barty, C. P. J., Guo, T., Blanc, C. Le, Raksi, F., Rose-Petruck, C. G., Squier, J. A., Walker, B. C., Wilson, K. R., Yakovlev, V. V., & Yamakawa, K. 1996. Sub-20-fs multiterawatt lasers and x-ray applications. Pages 282-288 of: X-ray lasers 1996, vol. 151. Bristol: IOP.
Beaud, P., Richardson, M., Miesak, E. J., & Chai, B. H. T. 1993. 8-TW 90-fs Cr:LiSAF laser. Optics Lett., 18, 1550-1552.
Danson, C., Barzanti, L.J., Chang, Z., & Damerell, A.E. 1993. High contrast multi-terawatt pulse generation using chirped pulse amplification on the VULCAN laser facility. Optics Comm., 103, 392-397.
F. P. Schäfer. 1992. SIMBA: Vorschlag für ein Hochleistungslaser-Labor. Phys. Blätter, 48, 606-607.
Geindre, J. P., Audebert, P., Rousse, A., Falliès, F., Gauthier, J. C., Mysyrowicz, A., Santos, A. Dos, Hamoniaux, G., & Antonetti, A. 1994. Frequency-domain interferometer for measuring the phase and amplitude of a femtosecond pulse probing a laser-produced plasma. Optics Letters, 19, 1997-1999.
Maine, P., Strickland, D., Bado, P., Pessot, M., & Mourou, G. 1988. Generation of ultrahigh peak power pulses by chirped-pulse amplification. IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 24, 398-403.
Mourou, G., & Umstadter, D. 1992. Development and applications of compact high-intensity lasers. Phys. Fluids B, 4, 2315-2325.
Normand, D., Ferray, M., Lompré, L. A., Gobert, O., L'Huillier, A., & Mainfray, G. 1990. Focused laser intensity measurement at and 1053nm. Optics Lett., 15, 1400-1402.
Patterson, F. G., Gonzales, R., & Perry, M. D. 1991. Compact 10-TW, 800-fs Nd:glass laser. Optics Letters, 16, 1107-1109.
Perry, M. D., & Mourou, G. 1994. Terawatt to petawatt subpicosecond lasers. Science, 264, 917-924.
Shepherd, R., Booth, R., Price, D., Bowers, M, Swan, D., Bonlie, J., Young, B., Dunn, J., White, B., & Stewart, R. 1994. Ultrafast x-ray streak camera for use in ultrashort laser-produced plasma research. Rev. Sci. Instr., 66, 719-721.
Strickland, D., & Mourou, G. 1985. Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses. Op. Commun., 56, 219-211.
Sullivan, A., Hamster, H., Kapteyn, H. C., Gordon, S., White, W., Nathel, H., Blair, R. J., & Falcone, R. W. 1991. Multiterawatt, 100 fs laser. Optics Lett., 16, 1406-1408.
Svanberg, S., Larsson, J., Persson, A, & Wahlström, C.-G. 1994. Lund high-power laser facility - systems and first results. Phys. Scripta, 49, 187-197.
Umstadter, D., Yu, L. H., Johnson, E., & Li, D. 1994. Ultrashort ultraviolet free-electron lasers. J. X-Ray Sci. and Tech., 4, 263-274.
Watteau, J. P., Bonnaud, G., Coutant, J., Dautray, R., Decoster, A., & Louis-Jacquet, M. 1992. Experimental program on the 20TW laser system. Phys. Fluids B, 4, 2217-2223.
Yamakawa, K., Shiraga, H., & Kato, Y. 1991. Prepulse-free 30-TW 1-ps Nd:glass laser. Optics Lett., 16, 1593-1595.

Books

Laser Plasma Theory and Simulation (Laser Science and Technology : An International Handbook, Vol 17) by Kunioki Mima (Editor), Hector A. Baldis, Akio Nishiguchi

High-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction research

LENS, Florence, Italy
LIF-ENSTA, LOA ENSTA; Palaiseau, France
- Femtosecond laser group (ELF)
- Lasers, Plasmas, X-Rays (LPX)
- Laser Matter Interaction (ILM)
NIF High Energy Lasers
- X-Ray Laser Sources
Los Alamos Inertial Confinment Fusion
Perspectives on Plasmas - the 4th state of matter
LLNL X-Division
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) University of Rochester, USA.
Oxford, High Power Laser Group
Bibliography of short pulse laser-plasma interactions. Jan 1997 (by Paul Gibbon)
Imperial College Plasma Physics Group, Laser Plasma Interaction, London, UK. July 31, 1999 (also here)
INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Activit�s Interaction laser-mati�re, Varennes, Canada. 02-03-1999
Center for Ultrafast Science, Michigan, USA. June 23, 1999
Central Laser Facility, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK. 09/06/99
Institute for Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka, Japan (Laser Applications)
Center for Ultrafast Science, Michigan
Laboratoire Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI), ECOLE Polytechique, Paris
Centre de Physique Theorique
Fast Ignitor Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Imperial College Plasma Physics Group, London
INRS-Energie et Materiaux, Varennes, Canada
IFAM - Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics , Pisa, Italy
Institute for Optics and Quantumelectronics, Jena: Short pulse laser interactions group, X-ray optics group
Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, USA
LOA - Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France
Lund Laser Centre (LLC), Lund, Sweden
Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics und Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Berlin
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching: Laser Plasma and High-Power Laser Group, Theoretical Quantum Optics Group.
Nonlinear Optics Group, Australia National University, Canberra
SPAM (Service des Photons, Atomes et Molecules), CEA-Saclay , Saclay, France.
TMR Short Pulse X-Ray Network, AMOLF, Holland; Official EU site.
SILASI TMR Network - Super Intense Laser-Solid Interaction, Darmstadt, Germany
Ultraviolet Laser Facility (ULF), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Heraklion
Wilson�Squier Group, Ultra fast x-rays, San Diego
A. Pukhov's Virtual Laser Plasma Laboratory

Conferences

1997 Applications of High Field and Short Wavelength Sources VII March, 1997 Santa Fe, New Mexico (Optical Society of America)
Ultraintense Laser Interactions and Applications - 1 Elounda, Crete, Greece, May 7 - 11, 1999
First International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA `99) University Bordeaux 1, 12-17 September 1999 (formerly the International Conference on Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena (LIRPP))
High Power Lasers in Energy Engineering (HPL02) Nov 1, 1999. Osaka University, Japan
SPIE Proceeding on Lasers
Rocca, J.J., Da Silva, L.B. (eds) : 1999, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications III (to appear in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3776)
Andreev, A.A., Vavilov, S.I. (eds) : 1998, Laser Optics '98: Superstrong Laser Fields and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3683 ISBN: 0-8194-3157-5, June 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia
Boreisho, A.S., Baranov, G.A. (eds) : 1998, XII International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High-Power Laser Conference SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3574 ISBN: 0-8194-3039-0, September 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mei, S.-S., Truesdell, K.A. (eds) : 1998, High-Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas, Excimer, and Other Advanced Lasers II SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3549 ISBN: 0-8194-3010-2, September 1998, Beijing, China
Basu, S. (ed) : 1998, High-Power Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3264 ISBN: 0-8194-2703-9, Jan 1998, San Jose, CA, USA
Rocca, J.J., Da Silva, L.B. (eds) : 1997, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications II SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3156 ISBN: 0-8194-2578-8, August 1997, San Diego, CA, USA
Hall, D.R., Baker, H.J. (eds) : 1997, XI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High-Power Laser Conference SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3092 ISBN: 0-8194-2507-9, August 1996, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Farrukh, U.O., Basu, S. (eds) : 1997, Modeling and Simulation of Higher-Power Laser Systems IV SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2989 ISBN: 0-8194-2400-5, Feb 1997, San Jose, CA, USA (see also)
Mei, S.-S., Truesdell, K.A. (eds) : 1996, High-Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas, Excimer, and Other Advanced Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2889 ISBN: 0-8194-2290-8, Nov 1996, Beijing, China
Andreev,A.L., Kocharovskaya,O., Novgorod,N., Mandel, P. (eds): 1996, Coherent Phenomena and Amplification without Inversion SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2798 ISBN: 0-8194-2186-3, July 1995, St. Petersburg, Russia
Osborne, M.R., Sayegh, G.. (eds) : 1996, High-Power Lasers: Applications and Emerging Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2789 ISBN: 0-8194-2175-8, June 1996, Micropolis, Besancon, France
Letardi,T., Weber,H., (eds) : 1996, High-Power Lasers: Gas and Solid State Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2788 ISBN: 0-8194-2174-X, June 1996, Micropolis, Besancon, France
Rohlena,K., Kodymova,J., Kralikova,B. : 1996, Fourth International Workshop on Iodine Lasers and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2767 ISBN: 0-8194-2151-0, Sept, 1995, Trest' Castle, Czech Republic
White, W.E., Reitze, D.H. (eds) : 1996, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2701 ISBN: 0-8194-2075-1, Feb 1996, San Jose, CA, USA
Rocca, J.J., Hagelstein, P.L. (eds) : 1995, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2520 ISBN: 0-8194-1879-X, July 1995, San Diego, CA, USA
Barty, C.P., Wise, F.V. (eds) : 1995, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2377 ISBN: 0-8194-1724-6, Feb 1995, San Jose, CA, USA
Bohrer, M., Letardi, T., Schuoecker, D., Weber, H. (eds) : 1994, High-Power Gas and Solid State Lasers SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2206 ISBN: 0-8194-1507-3, April 1994, Vienna, Austria
Trebino, R.P., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) : 1994, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2116 ISBN: 0-8194-1409-3, Jan 1994, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Piche, M., Pace,P.V. (eds) : 1994, Mode-locked and Other Ultrashort Laser Designs, Amplifiers, and Applications SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2041 ISBN: 0-8194-1300-3, Aug 1993, Quebec City, Canada
Suckewer, S., (ed) : 1994, Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers II SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2012 ISBN: 0-8194-1261-9, July 1993, San Diego, CA, USA
Paisner, J.A., (ed) : 1993, Short-Pulse High-Intensity Lasers and Applications III SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1860 ISBN: 0-8194-1087-X, Jan 1993, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alam, S. : 1999, Lasers without Inversion and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency SPIE ISBN 0-8194-3040-4

Ultrafast lasers

Ultrafast Optics 1999 Monte Verit�, Ascona, Switzerland July 12-16, 1999
Ultrafast Laser Physics Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

People

Kunioki Mima, Yasukazu Izawa, T. Yamanaka Osaka Univ., Japan
Takashi Arisawa, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Japan
Katsumi Midorikawa, RIKEN -- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan
Takatoshi Shindoh, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan
G. Mourou, D. Umstadter, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Gerald L. Kulcinski, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison, USA
Mike Perry, William Hogan, Bruce E. Warner, Michael H. Key, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA
Jean-Claude M. Diels, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Martin C. Richardson, CREOL/Univ. of Central Florida, USA
G. Jamelot, Univ. Paris-Sud, France
Mysyrowicz, A. : LOA (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee), Palaiseau, France
Victor V. Apollonov, General Physics Institute, Russia
Yury Resunkov, Research Institute for Complex Testing of Optoelectronic Devices, Russia

Commericial lasers

Alpha laser (excellent description of chirped pulse amplification) Thomson-CSF, B.M.industries departemnt
CONCERTO laser : 1.5 W, 100 fs, by Thomson-CSF
Omega-Pro laser (January 1999) by Femtolasers Produktions GmbH, Austria, and Thomson-CSF
- 1mJ, 25 fs, 1kHz, 40 GW
- CPA, Nd:YLF pumped Ti:sapphire amplifier
- 1.2 X 1.2 m in size

Laser Makers

Laser History