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The VULCAN high power laser system is an eight beam Nd:glass (1.053 μm) system capable of delivering pulse lengths of 300 ps - 10 ns and energies of 250 J per beam (at 1 ns) on six 108 mm diameter beams and 500 J per beam (at 1 ns) on two 150 mm diameter backlighter beams. Furthermore VULCAN in high power mode is capable of single pulse powers in excess of 35 TW in pulses as short as 700 fs using the chirped pulse amplification (CPA)1 technique. CPA avoids the non-linear effects of propagating an ultrashort pulse through the amplifier glass by stretching the pulse prior to amplification.
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