0.85 PW, 33 fs laser pulse generation from a Ti:sapphire laser system

Over the past 15 years, there has been rapid progress in producing high peak power, ultrashort laser pulses by incorporating the technique of chirped pulse amplification (CPA). In this paper a laboratory-scaled PW Ti:sapphire laser system which is currently being produced 32.9-fs pulses with a peak power of 0.85-PW is investigated.