Abstract
The degradation of picosecond contrast in Ti:Sapphire lasers was investigated for different stretcher-compressor combinations. During amplification the coherent ragged post-pedestal, the feature of Ti:Sapphire medium, generates a coherent pre-pedestal limiting the temporal contrast.
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