Two-Color Terawatt Laser System For High-Intensity Laser-Plasma Experiments
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2012-06
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Sanders, J. C.
Zgadzaj, R.
Downer, M. C.
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We report a two-color terawatt laser system for use in controlling laser-plasma instabilities. The system includes a commercial 45 TW Ti:Sapphire laser system at 800 nm, temporally synchronized with a 1 TW CPA Raman-Ti:Sapphire hybrid laser centered at 873nm that we designed and built to complement the 800 nm system. The two-color system will be used to seed, enhance, suppress, or otherwise control a variety of instabilities which arise in laser-plasma interactions.
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J. C. Sanders, R. Zgadzaj, and M. C. Downer. AIP Conference Proceedings 1507, 882 (2012); doi: 10.1063/1.4773816