Spatial degradation of pulse contrast in the focal plane for pulsed laser beams from chirped-pulse amplification system

Qingwei Yang; Mingwei Liu; Yanhai Wang; Xinglong Xie; Ailin Guo; Zunqi Lin

doi:10.1016/j.ijleo.2012.04.018

Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, Volume. 10, Issue 1, 1704(2012)

Spatial degradation of pulse contrast in the focal plane for pulsed laser beams from chirped-pulse amplification system

Qingwei Yang^1、*, Mingwei Liu², Yanhai Wang³, Xinglong Xie¹, Ailin Guo¹, and Zunqi Lin¹

¹National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 390, Qinghe Road, Jiading District, Shanghai 201800, China

²School of Physics, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Hunan 411201, China

³College of Sciences, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, China

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Qingwei Yang, Mingwei Liu, Yanhai Wang, Xinglong Xie, Ailin Guo, Zunqi Lin. Spatial degradation of pulse contrast in the focal plane for pulsed laser beams from chirped-pulse amplification system[J]. Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, 2012, 10(1): 1704

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Received: Nov. 1, 2011

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Published Online: Jun. 2, 2017

The Author Email: Yang Qingwei (yqwphy@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1016/j.ijleo.2012.04.018

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