HYBRID GRATING PRISM STRETCHER COMPRESSOR SYSTEM WITH CUBIC PHASE AND WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY AND DECREASED ALIGNMENT SENSITIVITY

被引:24
作者
KANE, S
SQUIER, J
RUDD, JV
MOUROU, G
机构
[1] Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Room 1006, IST Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2099
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10.1364/OL.19.001876
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A novel stretcher-compressor design for chirped-pulse amplification systems is presented. The stretcher, which incorporates high-groove-density gratings and an intragrating prism pair, is shown to be highly cubic-phase tunable. Using a hybrid stretcher with 2400-line/mm gratings and off-the-shelf prisms, we have demonstrated amplification of sub-100-fs pulses. In addition, this cubic-phase tunability combined with the broadband efficiency of high-groove-density (2000 lines/mm) gratings allows for the possibility of a system that is tunable in wavelength.
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页码:1876 / 1878
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