Abstract

Recent invention of longitudinally chirped volume Bragg gratings has dramatically changed a design of high power femtosecond lasers. Replacing of bulky pairs of conventional surface gratings with compact and robust chirped volume Bragg gratings for stretching and compression of laser pulses in chirped-pulse-amplification systems enabled decrease of size and weight of those systems by several times. This patent application enables substantial increase of stretching time and compression to shorter pulses along with more complex shaping of laser pulses in both temporal and spectral domains.

Document Type

Patent

Patent Number

US 8,724,207

Application Serial Number

13/006,108

Issue Date

5-13-2014

Current Assignee

UCFRF

Assignee at Issuance

UCFRF

College

College of Optics and Photonics

Department

CREOL

Allowance Date

12-10-2013

Filing Date

1-13-2011

Assignee at Filing

UCFRF

Filing Type

Nonprovisional Application Record

Donated

no

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