High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Colin Danson, Jianqiang Zhu
2020
Volume: 8 Issue 4
15 Article(s)
Special Issue on 60th Celebration of First Laser
Markus Büscher... Anna Hützen, Liangliang Ji and Andreas Lehrach|Show fewer author(s)

The acceleration of polarized electrons, positrons, protons and ions in strong laser and plasma fields is a very attractive option for obtaining polarized beams in the multi-mega-electron volt range. Recently, there has been subst

High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Nov. 23, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e36 (2020)
  • Letters
    Lian Zhou... Yang Liu, Gehui Xie, Chenglin Gu, Zejiang Deng, Zhiwei Zhu, Cheng Ouyang, Zhong Zuo, Daping Luo, Bin Wu, Kunfeng Chen and Wenxue Li|Show fewer author(s)

    We report on the generation of a mid-infrared (mid-IR) frequency comb with a maximum average output power of 250 mW and tunability in the 2.7–4.0 μm region. The approach is based on a single-stage difference frequency generation (

    Oct. 09, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e32 (2020)
  • Yizhu Chen... Tianfu Yao, Hu Xiao, Jinyong Leng and Pu Zhou|Show fewer author(s)

    We report a 2 kW all-fiberized Raman fiber amplifier with efficient brightness enhancement based on the graded-index fiber. The maximum power output reaches up to 2.034 kW centered at 1130 nm, with a conversion efficiency of 79.35

    Oct. 09, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e33 (2020)
  • Research Articles
    Mario Galletti... Pedro Oliveira, Marco Galimberti, Munadi Ahmad, Giedre Archipovaite, Nicola Booth, Emerald Dilworth, Andy Frackiewicz, Trevor Winstone, Ian Musgrave and Cristina Hernandez-Gomez|Show fewer author(s)

    A petawatt facility fully based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (NOPCPA) technology, Vulcan OPPEL (Vulcan OPCPA PEtawatt Laser), is presented. This system will be coupled with the existing hybrid-CPA

    Oct. 09, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e31 (2020)
  • Xiang-Bing Wang... Guang-Yue Hu, Zhi-Meng Zhang, Yu-Qiu Gu, Bin Zhao, Yang Zuo and Jian Zheng|Show fewer author(s)

    In the laser plasma interaction of quantum electrodynamics (QED)-dominated regime, γ-rays are generated due to synchrotron radiation from high-energy electrons traveling in a strong background electromagnetic field. With the aid o

    Oct. 16, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e34 (2020)
  • Huijun He... Jun Yu, Wentao Zhu, Xiaoyang Guo, Cangtao Zhou and Shuangchen Ruan|Show fewer author(s)

    This study develops a Yb:KGW dual-crystal based regenerative amplifier. The thermal lensing and gain-narrowing effects are compensated by the dual-crystal configuration. Sub-nanojoule pulses are amplified to 1.5 mJ with 9 nm spect

    Oct. 27, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e35 (2020)
  • Hao Yang... Jian Cheng, Zhichao Liu, Qi Liu, Linjie Zhao, Chao Tan, Jian Wang and Mingjun Chen|Show fewer author(s)

    To determine whether a potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) surface mitigated by micro-milling would potentially threaten downstream optics, we calculated the light-field modulation based on angular spectrum diffraction theory, an

    Nov. 23, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e37 (2020)
  • Obulkasim Olugh... Zi-Liang Li and Bai-Song Xie|Show fewer author(s)

    Using the Dirac–Heisenberg–Wigner formalism, effects of the asymmetric pulse shape on the generation of electron-positron pairs in three typical polarized fields, i.e., linear, middle elliptical and circular fields, are investigat

    Nov. 23, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e38 (2020)
  • Yunpeng Wang... Youlun Ju, Tongyu Dai, Dong Yan and Baoquan Yao|Show fewer author(s)

    A single-frequency pulsed holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Ho:YLF) amplifier pumped by a Tm-doped fiber laser was demonstrated. The seed was an injection-seeded Q-switched Ho:YLF laser. The output energy from the single-fre

    Nov. 23, 2020
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e39 (2020)
  • Zhiguo Lv... Zhi Yang, Qianglong Li, Feng Li, Yishan Wang, Wei Zhao and Xiaojun Yang|Show fewer author(s)

    In this paper, we innovatively conduct a Porro prism-based beam pointing stability promotion technique research and realize a high-performance rod-type photonic crystal fiber-based chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system, mainly

    Jan. 05, 2021
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e40 (2020)
  • Dahui Wang... Yinren Shou, Pengjie Wang, Jianbo Liu, Zhusong Mei, Zhengxuan Cao, Jianmin Zhang, Pengling Yang, Guobin Feng, Shiyou Chen, Yanying Zhao, Joerg Schreiber and Wenjun Ma|Show fewer author(s)

    Single-shot laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) measurements of multi-type free-standing ultrathin foils were performed in a vacuum environment for 800 nm laser pulses with durations τ ranging from 50 fs to 200 ps. The results s

    Jan. 05, 2021
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e41 (2020)
  • Th. Lamprou... I. Liontos, N. C. Papadakis and P. Tzallas|Show fewer author(s)

    Nonclassical light sources have a vital role in quantum optics as they offer a unique resource for studies in quantum technology. However, their applicability is restricted by their low intensity, while the development of new sche

    Jan. 05, 2021
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e42 (2020)
  • François Lureau... Guillaume Matras, Olivier Chalus, Christophe Derycke, Thomas Morbieu, Christophe Radier, Olivier Casagrande, Sébastien Laux, Sandrine Ricaud, Gilles Rey, Alain Pellegrina, Caroline Richard, Laurent Boudjemaa, Christophe Simon-Boisson, Andrei Baleanu, Romeo Banici, Andrei Gradinariu, Constantin Caldararu, Bertrand De Boisdeffre, Petru Ghenuche, Andrei Naziru, Georgios Kolliopoulos, Liviu Neagu, Razvan Dabu, Ioan Dancus and Daniel Ursescu|Show fewer author(s)

    We report on a two-arm hybrid high-power laser system (HPLS) able to deliver 2 × 10 PW femtosecond pulses, developed at the Bucharest-Magurele Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) Facility. A hybrid front-end (FE)

    Jan. 05, 2021
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e43 (2020)
  • I. Makos... I. Orfanos, E. Skantzakis, I. Liontos, P. Tzallas, A. Forembski, L. A. A. Nikolopoulos and D. Charalambidis|Show fewer author(s)

    Motivated by the achieved high intensities of novel extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation sources, such as free electron lasers and laser-driven high harmonic generation beamlines, we elaborate on their perspective in inducing obser

    Jan. 05, 2021
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e44 (2020)
  • Yangshuai Li... Bingyan Wang, Panzheng Zhang, Yanli Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang, Shenlei Zhou, Weixin Ma and Jianqiang Zhu|Show fewer author(s)

    As the key part for energy amplification of high-power laser systems, disk amplifiers must work in an extremely clean environment. Different from the traditional cleanliness control scheme of active intake and passive exhaust (AIP

    Jan. 05, 2021
  • Vol. 8 Issue 4 04000e45 (2020)
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