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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 22, Issue 5, 051404 (2024)

Suppression of nanosecond prepulses from regenerative amplifier and multipass amplifiers in the SULF-1PW laser

Peile Bai^1,2, Zongxin Zhang^1,*, Xinliang Wang¹, Jiayi Qian¹..., Jiacheng Zhu¹, Fenxiang Wu¹, Jiabing Hu¹, Xiaojun Yang¹, Jiayan Gui¹, Xiaoming Lu¹, Yanqi Liu¹, Yi Xu^1,**, Xiaoyan Liang¹, Yuxin Leng^1,*** and Ruxin Li¹|Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Peile Bai, Zongxin Zhang, Xinliang Wang, Jiayi Qian, Jiacheng Zhu, Fenxiang Wu, Jiabing Hu, Xiaojun Yang, Jiayan Gui, Xiaoming Lu, Yanqi Liu, Yi Xu, Xiaoyan Liang, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li, "Suppression of nanosecond prepulses from regenerative amplifier and multipass amplifiers in the SULF-1PW laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 051404 (2024) Copy Citation Text

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Peile Bai, Zongxin Zhang, Xinliang Wang, Jiayi Qian, Jiacheng Zhu, Fenxiang Wu, Jiabing Hu, Xiaojun Yang, Jiayan Gui, Xiaoming Lu, Yanqi Liu, Yi Xu, Xiaoyan Liang, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li, "Suppression of nanosecond prepulses from regenerative amplifier and multipass amplifiers in the SULF-1PW laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 051404 (2024)

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