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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.971060
