Hybrid vacuum-atmosphere compressors for ultrafast, high-peak power chirped-pulse amplification

Author

Walker, Barry C. ; Squier, Jeff A. ; Fittinghoff, David N. ; Rose-Petruck, Christoph ; Barty, Christopher P J

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. & Biochem., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

1998

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

444

Abstract

Theoretical and experimental results are presented for ultrafast, chirped-pulse amplifier compressors that contain only the final, high-peak power grating in vacuum. The designs are compact and the adjustments of the compressor gratings are at atmosphere. The optical aberrations and dispersion of the system are found to be negligible for the compression of 25-fs pulses. The application of the hybrid vacuum-atmosphere compressor is robust with respect to a broad range of wavelengths and optical configurations

Keywords

aberrations; diffraction gratings; optical design techniques; optical dispersion; optical pulse compression; vacuum techniques; 25 fs; compressor gratings; final high-peak power grating; hybrid vacuum-atmosphere compressor; hybrid vacuum-atmosphere compressors; optical aberrations; optical pulse compression; ultrafast chirped-pulse amplifier compressors; ultrafast high-peak power chirped-pulse amplification; Atmosphere; Chirp; Compressors; Gratings; High power amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2944.686753

Filename

686753