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Title: Short pulse laser stretcher-compressor using a single common reflective grating

Abstract

The present invention provides an easily aligned, all-reflective, aberration-free pulse stretcher-compressor in a compact geometry. The stretcher-compressor device is a reflective multi-layer dielectric that can be utilized for high power chirped-pulse amplification material processing applications. A reflective grating element of the device is constructed: 1) to receive a beam for stretching of laser pulses in a beam stretcher beam path and 2) to also receive stretched amplified pulses to be compressed in a compressor beam path through the same (i.e., common) reflective multilayer dielectric diffraction grating. The stretched and compressed pulses are interleaved about the grating element to provide the desired number of passes in each respective beam path in order to achieve the desired results.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1174857
Patent Number(s):
6739728
Application Number:
10/117,744
Assignee:
University Of California, The Regents Of
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Erbert, Gaylen V., Biswal, Subrat, Bartolick, Joseph M., Stuart, Brent C., and Telford, Steve. Short pulse laser stretcher-compressor using a single common reflective grating. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Erbert, Gaylen V., Biswal, Subrat, Bartolick, Joseph M., Stuart, Brent C., & Telford, Steve. Short pulse laser stretcher-compressor using a single common reflective grating. United States.
Erbert, Gaylen V., Biswal, Subrat, Bartolick, Joseph M., Stuart, Brent C., and Telford, Steve. Tue . "Short pulse laser stretcher-compressor using a single common reflective grating". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1174857.
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author = {Erbert, Gaylen V. and Biswal, Subrat and Bartolick, Joseph M. and Stuart, Brent C. and Telford, Steve},
abstractNote = {The present invention provides an easily aligned, all-reflective, aberration-free pulse stretcher-compressor in a compact geometry. The stretcher-compressor device is a reflective multi-layer dielectric that can be utilized for high power chirped-pulse amplification material processing applications. A reflective grating element of the device is constructed: 1) to receive a beam for stretching of laser pulses in a beam stretcher beam path and 2) to also receive stretched amplified pulses to be compressed in a compressor beam path through the same (i.e., common) reflective multilayer dielectric diffraction grating. The stretched and compressed pulses are interleaved about the grating element to provide the desired number of passes in each respective beam path in order to achieve the desired results.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {2004},
month = {5}
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Works referenced in this record:

Aberration-free stretcher design for ultrashort-pulse amplification
journal, January 1996


Terawatt Ti:sapphire laser with a spherical reflective-optic pulse expander
journal, January 1995