Title :
Dispersive mirror compressor for chirped pulse amplifiers
Author :
Pervak, V. ; Ahmad, I. ; Trushin, S.A. ; Major, Zs ; Karsch, S. ; Krausz, F.
Author_Institution :
Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munchen, Garching, Germany
Abstract :
We report on a newly-developed low-loss broadband high-dispersion mirrors which are capable of taking over the role of prisms and gratings in mJ-scale femtosecond chirped-pulse amplifiers. The compression of a 1.4 mJ chirped pulse in a DMC down to sub-20-fs is demonstrated.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser mirrors; optical dispersion; optical losses; optical pulse compression; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; chirped pulse compression; energy 1.4 mJ; low-loss broadband high-dispersion mirror; mJ-scale femtosecond chirped-pulse amplifiers; time 20 fs; Chirp; Dispersion; Mirrors; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Reflection; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621337
