Title

Alignment procedure for a dual grating pulse compressor

Authors

Authors

E. Miesak;R. Negres

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Optics

Keywords

AMPLIFICATION; Optics

Abstract

Grating pulse compressors are an integral part of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) lasers.(1) Accurate alignment of the compressor is required to obtain minimum pulsewidth at the output of the system. Dual grating compressors are difficult to align because they don't function unless they are close to optimum alignment, The procedure outlined here provides a simple step-wise method of aligning a dual grating pulse compressor so that the gratings will be parallel with one another, Once this condition has been established, only the distance between the gratings needs to be adjusted to start the system operating. At this point, the compressor can be critically aligned.

Journal Title

Applied Optics

Volume

37

Issue/Number

34

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

8146

Last Page

8147

WOS Identifier

WOS:000077168600036

ISSN

0003-6935

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