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

被引：5
作者：
Walker, BC [1 ]
Squier, JA
Fittinghoff, DN
Rose-Petrck, C
Barty, CPJ
机构：
[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Chem & Biochem, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Elect & Computat Engn, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[3] Univ Calif San Diego, Inst Nonlinear Sci, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
来源：
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 1998年 / 4卷 / 02期
关键词：
gratings; laser amplifiers; laser beam distortion; optical pulse amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical propagation in nonlinear medium; pulse compression methods; ultrafast optics;
D O I：
10.1109/2944.686753
中图分类号：
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号：
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要：
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.
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页码：441 / 444
页数：4
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