J-KAREN-P laser facility at QST: High contrast, high intensity petawatt OPCPA/Ti: Sapphire hybrid laser system

The J-KAREN-P laser facility [1] can provide FW peak power at 0.1 Hz. It is based on the generation of short pulses of 30 fs and energy of 30 J after compression. The contrast of the generated pulses is better than 10¹² and the final focused intensity is higher than W/cm². Such performance in high field science will give rise to the birth of new applications and breakthroughs, which include relativistic particle acceleration, bright x-ray source generation, and nuclear activation.