K-α spectroscopic measurements of MeV electrons from high intensity, picosecond laser plasmas*
Optica Publishing Group (1994) pd1
PLASMA ION EMISSION FROM HIGH-INTENSITY PICOSECOND LASER-PULSE INTERACTIONS WITH SOLID TARGETS
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 73:13 (1994) 1801-1804
High contrast multi-terawatt pulse generation using chirped pulse amplification on the VULCAN laser facility
Optics Communications 103:5-6 (1993) 392-397
Abstract:
High power (8 TW), ultra-short (2.4 ps), pulses have been generated using chirped pulse amplification techniques on the VULCAN Nd: glass laser. A novel oscillator was developed as a driver producing ≈ ps pulses at 105 nm. The oscillator output was stretched prior to amplification and compressed at an aperture of 150 mm. The contrast ratio obtained was ≈ 106, which is suitable for laser plasma interaction studies. © 1993.Measurement of the photo-pump strength of the 3d-5f transitions in the automatically line matched ni-like sm photo-pumped x-ray laser
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 26:20 (1993) 3693-3699
Abstract:
The photo-pump strengths of both the ((3d4)o(3d6)o)o-(((3d3)3/2(3d6)o)3/2 (5f)5/2)1 and the ((3d4)o(3d6)o)o-(((3d3)5/2(3d6)o)7/2 (5f)5/2)1 transitions in Ni-like Smw+ have been measured to be 2, 0 x 10-4 and 2.4 x 10-4 photons/mode respectively. The implications of the measurement are briefly discussed in a comparison of the merits of automatically line matched photo-pump scheme to those of the collisional excitation Ni-like Sm+34 scheme. © 1993 IOP Publishing Ltd.Chirped-pulse amplification experiments on the VULCAN Nd:glass laser facility
Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 1860 (1993) 10-20