Temporal aberrations due to misalignments of a stretcher-compressor system and compensation

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Authors

C. Fiorini · École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées

C. Sauteret · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

C. Rouyer · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

N. Blanchot · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

S. Seznec · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

A. Migus · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

Abstract

Sensitivity of alignment is one of the major issues in the stretcher-compressor devices used for chirped pulse amplification. In this paper we discuss the temporal aberrations induced by the different kinds of misalignments of the gratings and we emphasize the importance of spatially transverse effects. We discuss simple criteria for minimizing these faults. Finally, we introduce the basic principles of self-compensation and present such a set-up based on symmetry considerations.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>

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Publication Details

Published in: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volume 30, Issue 7, pp. 1662-1670

DOI: 10.1109/3.299499

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