Contrast limitation due to pump noise in
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I.N. Ross; G.H.C. New; P.K. Bates
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The contrast ratio of the recompressed output pulses in an optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system can be limited by temporal noise on the pump pulse. We present a simple analysis which can be used to estimate both the contrast ratio of this background noise and the duration of its ped