Contemporary high-power laser systems make use of solid-state laser technology to reach
petawatt pulse powers. The breakdown threshold for optical components in these systems …

A new amplification method, weaving the three basic compression techniques, Chirped
Pulse Amplification (CPA), Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) and …

Extreme optical fluences, much beyond the damage threshold of conventional optics, are of
interest for a range of high-energy-density physics applications. Nonlinear interactions of …

Through resonant backward Raman scattering, the plasma wave mediates the energy
transfer between long pump and short seed laser pulses. These mediations can result in …

The demand for high-intensity lasers has grown ever since the invention of lasers in 1960,
owing to their applications in the fields of inertial confinement fusion, plasma-based …

It was proposed recently that powerful optical laser pulses could be efficiently compressed
through backward Raman amplification in ionized low density solids, in spite of strong …

Backward Raman amplification of laser pulses in plasmas can produce nearly relativistic
unfocused output intensities and multi-exawatt powers in compact devices. The largest …

We show that backward Raman amplification in plasma can efficiently compress a
temporally incoherent pump laser into an intense coherent amplified seed pulse, provided …

Laser pulse compression using magnetized resonance near the upper-hybrid frequency is
promising for achieving higher output intensity in regimes previously thought impossible …

In the process of backward Raman amplification (BRA), the leading layers of the seed laser
pulse can shadow the rear layers, thus weakening the effective seeding power and affecting …