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A high contrast dual OPCPA pre-amplifier system using both picosecond and nanosecond pump pulses for the Vulcan Petawatt Facility

W. Shaikh, I. O. Musgrave, C. Hernandez-Gomez, B. Parry, and D. Johnson

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Abstract

We construct a dual OPCPA scheme with a picosecond OPA for seeding the Vulcan pre-amplifier demonstrating a 103 nanosecond contrast improvement. We provide evidence that the nanosecond contrast of this preamplifier is ~5*10−10.

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