Abstract
A two-pass, full-tiled grating compressor with a unique feedback control system for precise alignment was realized in an XG-III petawatt-class laser facility, based on the chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) technique. Far-field images of both 0th order and-1st order diffraction light of a tiled grating assembly (TGA) were recorded using a CCD camera, by which the tiling errors of the TGA can be identified and corrected in real-time without disturbing the main beam. A final compressed pulse of 615fs (FWHM) with a focal spot about 1.1 times the diffraction limited (DL) size was achieved.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 015301 |
| Journal | Laser Physics |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 2015 |
Keywords
- CPA
- compressor
- grating tiling
- petawatt-class laser
- real-time