Annual Report 2008/09 – Laser Science & Development, Vulcan

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| Vulcan TAW upgrade – installation
| A compact dual vacuum compressors for the Target Area West
| Vulcan TAW upgrade – vacuum system design
| Vulcan TAW upgrade – vacuum chamber design
| Vulcan Target Area West upgrade grating mounts design
| Vulcan Target Area West upgrade support frame design
| Upgrade to the Vulcan Laser system to support the TAW upgrade
| New short pulse diagnostics for the Target Area West
| Building a contrast monitor for TAW
| An autocorrelator for TAW 10ps beam line
| The Vulcan 10PW project
| 10 PW front-end characterisation
| High performance Ti:Sa amplifier for 10PW front-end system
| Evaluation of new gratings for the Vulcan 10 PW OPCPA upgrade project
| Improvement to the TAP nanosecond contrast diagnostic
| An upgrade to the ultrafast optical trigger for TAP and new one for TAW
| Development, Commissioning and Experimental delivery of Full energy chosen shaped long pulse laser pulses on Vulcan
| Investigation into Yb-doped fibre amplifiers as pre-amplifiers for Vulcan
| Numerical simulations of ytterbium-doped fibre amplifiers utilising small scale parallelism
| Preliminary results of a 20nm high efficiency Picosecond OPA system for a Petawatt dual OPCPA scheme

 
Contact: Springate, Emma (STFC,RAL,CLF)