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Gerard Mourou
Researcher at École Polytechnique
Publications - 664
Citations - 36215
Gerard Mourou is an academic researcher from École Polytechnique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Ultrashort pulse. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 653 publications receiving 34147 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerard Mourou include University of Michigan & San Diego State University.
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Compact directly diode-pumped femtosecond Nd:glass chirped-pulse-amplification laser system
TL;DR: This system provides the highest peak and average power obtained from a directly diode-pumped femtosecond laser and spectral gain shaping was shown to extend the bandwidth that was supported in the low-gain amplifier.
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Interaction of a 1 psec laser pulse with solid matter
Mohamed Chaker,J. C. Kieffer,J. P. Matte,H. Pépin,P. Audebert,P. Maine,Donna Strickland,Philippe Bado,Gerard Mourou +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a 1 psec pulse incident on solid targets with an intensity between 1011 and 1016 W/cm2 was investigated and the results were discussed in the light of 1-D hydrodynamic simulations with time-dependent atomic physics.
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Operation of a 1-kHz pulse-pumped Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier
TL;DR: A Ti:sapphire laser pumped at a 1-kHz repetition rate by a frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser is operated to amplify regeneratively 22-psec pulses from a synchronously pumped dye laser, producing up to 300 mJ of energy in a 22- psec pulse at 1 kHz.
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Chirped pulse amplification of 300 fs pulses in an alexandrite regenerative amplifier
TL;DR: In this article, the amplification of femtosecond dye laser pulses up to the 3.5mJ level in an alexandrite regenerative amplifier is discussed, and an expansion/compression system using diffraction gratings is used to produce peak powers upwards of 1 GW.
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Characterization of short-pulse oscillators by means of a high-dynamic-range autocorrelation measurement.
A. Braun,J. V. Rudd,H. Cheng,Gerard Mourou,D. Kopf,I. D. Jung,K. J. Weingarten,Ursula Keller +7 more
TL;DR: A high-dynamic-range autocorrelation technique was used to characterize the temporal pulse shape of ultrashort laser pulses produced from four separate oscillators, showing that the Nd:glass oscillator supported a pulse that was temporally clean over 8 orders of magnitude.