Development of high temporal and spatial quality, high intensity laser system

Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Mori, Michiaki; Tanaka, Momoko; Okada, Hajime; Kosuge, Atsushi  ; Yoshida, Fumiko; Shimomura, Takuya; Sasao, Hajime; Nakai, Yoshiki*; Tanoue, Manabu; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Fukuda, Yuji; Suzuki, Masayuki*; Daito, Izuru; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Kando, Masaki; Bulanov, S. V.; Nagashima, Keisuke; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Kondo, Kiminori; Sugiyama, Akira; Bolton, P.; Miyanaga, Noriaki*

We describe two specific high intensity laser systems that are being developed in our laboratory for many applications such as high field science and nonlinear optics. We report on an ultra-high intensity petawatt-class Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification laser system that can produce a pulse energy of 18 J with 30 fs pulse duration for studying extremely high intensity laser matter interaction process and a small-scaled Yb:YAG chirped-pulse amplification laser system that can generate a pulse energy of 100 m J of 500 fs pulse duration for compact, high efficiency, high repetition system. We discuss the basic design aspects and present the results from our experimental investigations of these laser systems.