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This paper reports our experimental research on the laser contrast ratio enhancement in the XL-Ⅲ (eXtreme Light Ⅲ) facility with the technology of cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation. Based on the theoretical analysis of the relerant principles, we introduced an XPW filter in the facility, which was upgraded with a double chirped pulse amplification (DCPA) scheme. Under optimized system design and alignment, we measured the conversion efficiency from fundamental wave to cross-polarized wave to be higher than 10%. The pre-pulses in nanosecond scale were deeply suppressed and the contrast ratio in picosecond scale was enhanced from 10-5 to 10-7. Our results show the XPW generation provides an effective technique to improve the contrast ratio of a Chirped-pulse amplification laser system, which is a key issue in ultrahigh intensity laser-matter researches.
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Keywords:
- chirped-pulse amplification /
- contrast ratio /
- cross-polarized wave
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[1] Perry M D, Pennington D, Stuart B C, Tietbohl G, Britten J A, Brown C, Herman S, Golick B, Kartz M, Miller J, Powell H T, Vergino M, Yanovsky V 1999 Opt. Lett. 24 160
[2] Erhard W G, Mikael M, Joel B, Axel J, Martin I, Doug H, Ted B, Ramiro E, Skylar D, Watson H, Gilliss D, Alvin E, Rick C, John C, Christopher E, Todd D 2010 Appl. Opt. 49 1676
[3] Aoyama M, Yamakawa K, Akahane Y, Ma J, Inoue N, Ueda H, Kiriyama H 2003 Opt. Lett. 28 1594
[4] Liang X Y, Leng Y X, Wang C, Li C, Lin L, Zhao B, Jiang Y, Lu X, Hu M, Zhang C, Lu H H, Yin D J, Jiang Y L, Lu W H, Zhu J Q, Li R X, Xu Z Z 2007 Opt. Express 15 15335
[5] Wei Z Y, Wang Z H, Wang P, Ling W J, Zhu J F, Han H N, Zhang J 2008 J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 112 032003
[6] Ivanov V V, Maksimchuk A, Mourou G 2003 Appl. Opt. 42 7231
[7] Yanovsky V, Chvykov V, Kalinchenko G, Rousseau P, Planchon T, Matsuoka T, Maksimchuk A, Nees J, Cheriaux G, Mourou G, Krushelnick K 2008 Opt. Express 16 2109
[8] Itatani J, Faure J, Nantel M, Mourou G, Watanabe S 1998 Opt. Commun. 148 70
[9] Herrmann D, Veisz L, Tautz R, Tavella F, Schmid K, Pervak V, Krausz F 2009 Opt. Lett. 34 2459
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[12] Jullien A, Augé-Rochereau F, Chériaux G, Chambaret J 2004 Opt. Lett. 21 84
[13] Nishizawa N, Murayama A 2007 Opt. Lett. 32 3516
[14] Thaury C, Qúeré F, Geindre J P, Levy A, Ceccotti T, Monot P, Bougeard M, Réau1 F, Doliveira P, Audebert P, Marjoribanks R, Martin P H 2007 Nat. Phys. 31 424
[15] Jullien A, Albert O, Burgy F, Hamoniaux G, Rousseau J, Chambaret J, Augé-Rochereau F, Chériaux G, Etchepare J, Minkovski N, Saltiel S M 2005 Opt. Lett. 30 920
[16] Minkovski N, Petrov G I, Saltiel S M 2004 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21 1659
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