• DocumentCode
    2002908
  • Title

    Compact and material-dispersion-compatible Offner stretcher for chirped pulse amplification

  • Author

    Zhigang Zhang ; Yanrong Song ; Hong Sun ; Lu Chai ; Qingyue Wang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Precision Instrum. & Optoelectronics Eng., Tianjin Univ., China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    15-19 July 2001
  • Abstract
    A compact Offner stretcher is proposed based on properly choosing the grating position and mirror curvatures. The stretcher could support 20-fs pulse regenerative amplification but has a much smaller physical size.
  • Keywords
    aberrations; chirp modulation; laser mirrors; optical pulse compression; ray tracing; chirped pulse amplification; compact Offner stretcher; dispersion compensation; femtosecond laser pulses; grating position; group delay; material-dispersion-compatible stretcher; mirror curvatures; pulse regenerative amplification; ray-tracing calculation; spherical aberration; Chirp; Delay; Diffraction gratings; Instruments; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Sun;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chiba, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6738-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.971060
  • Filename
    971060