High peak power lasers, high pulse energy lasers and applications (2)

[ALPS2-04] High contrast sub-10 fs pulses from cross-polarized wave generation in multiple thin BaF2 plates

*Xianzhi Wang¹, Zhaohua Wang^1,2,3, Jiajun Li^1,2, Jiawen Li^1,2, Zhiyi Wei^1,2,3 (1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2. Department of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory )

High contrast broadband pulses of 110 μJ were generated by cross-polarized wave generation in multiple thin BaF₂ plates. The contrast was enhanced by 4 order of magnitude while the duration was compressed by 3.9 times.