10 PW peak power femtosecond laser pulses at ELI-NP
Christophe Radier, Olivier Chalus, Mathilde Charbonneau, Shanjuhan Thambirajah, Guillaume Deschamps, Stephane David, Julien Barbe, Éric Etter, Guillaume Matras, Sandrine Ricaud, Vincent Leroux, Caroline Richard, François Lureau, Andrei Baleanu, Romeo Banici, Andrei Gradinariu, Constantin Caldararu, Cristian Capiteanu, Andrei Nazîru, Bogdan Diaconescu, Vicenţiu Iancu, R. Dabu, D. Ursescu, Ioan Dăncuş, C. A. Ur, K. A. Tanaka, N. V. Zamfir
Abstract
Abstract We report on the generation and delivery of 10.2 PW peak power laser pulses, using the High Power Laser System at the Extreme Laser Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics facility. In this work we demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the compression and propagation of full energy, full aperture, laser pulses that reach a power level of more than 10 PW.