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An ultrahigh contrast laser pulse of over 1011 for 6 ps before the main pulse was achieved by employing a double plasma mirror installed at the end of a 100 TW Ti:sapphire laser system. Spatial beam qualities such as focusability and stability were found to be extremely sensitive in the range of 14–360 J/cm2 on the double plasma mirror, while ultrahigh contrast was maintained. At the fluence of 90 J/cm2 the focusability of the ultrahigh contrast laser was not degraded, and the stability was very close to that obtained without the double plasma mirror when the 2-dimensional normalized standard deviation and the correlation function for several laser beam profiles were analyzed. These results are requisites for carrying out relativistic laser-plasma interactions with ultrahigh contrast laser pulses, enabling the use of ultrathin solid targets.
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Kim, I., Choi, I.W., Lee, S.K. et al. Spatio-temporal characterization of double plasma mirror for ultrahigh contrast and stable laser pulse. Appl. Phys. B 104, 81–86 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4584-2
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