The effect of self-phase modulation in chirped-pulse amplification is investigated. A numerical model is used to predict the effects of phase modulation on pulse recompression, and experimental results are presented that agree well with the calculations. We show that even moderate self-phase modulation can significantly distort the recompressed pulse after amplification, thereby reducing the pe...

Three-dimensional numerical computations were carried out to understand the overlap effect of the transmitted pulses in a cubic participating medium subjected to a diffuse square pulse train using the transient discrete ordinates method with the pulse boundary condition. In concrete terms, the effects of the pulse width and pulse train interval on the divergence of radiative heat flux were scru...

The electro-optic effect between an ultrafast optical probe pulse and an ultrashort terahertz pulse is shown to depend on the time derivatives of the product of the probe and terahertz electric fields. Application of this theory to temporally resolved single-shot terahertz detection techniques, where the electro-optic effect is temporally localized within an optical probe pulse, shows that the ...

A brief analysis is presented of the effect of small variations in amplitude and phase in the accelerating rf pulse in addition to the deliberate pulse shaping on the energy deviation along a bunch train and the effects of pulse-to-pulse fluctuations.