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Since the development of the technique of chirped pulse amplification (CPA), there has been rapid progress in generating high peak power, ultrashort laser pulses. To date, pulses as short as 450-fs with over a petawatt peak power have been generated by using a large scale, inertial-confinement-fusion, Nd:glass laser.1 Such lasers can realize a focused peak intensity of over 1021 W/cm2. These laser systems are useful for a variety of high-field applications such as the electron and ion acceleration, laser induced nuclear photophysics, laboratory-based astrophysics and fast ignitor fusion.' We report on the design and construction of a laboratory-scaled Ti:sapphire CPA laser system which is capable of producing sub-30 fs pulses with peak power of 1 PW.
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