Evaluation of chirped-pulse-amplification systems withOffner triplet telescope stretchers翻译.doc

678 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B / Vol. 19, No. 4 / April 2002 Jiang et al. Evaluation of chirped-pulse-amplification systems with Offner triplet telescope stretchers Jie Jiang Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono,Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan Zhigang Zhang School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Tianjin, Tianjin 300072, China Toshifumi Hasama Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono,Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan Received June 15, 2001; revised manuscript received October 8, 2001 We present an analytical phase expression for an Offner triplet telescope stretcher based on ray tracing and apply it to analyze a chirped-pulse-amplification (CPA) system that includes an Offner stretcher. The results of our calculations show that the aberration caused by an off-center grating arrangement of an Offner stretcher can be used to cancel out the material dispersion of the CPA system. The optimization of the grating position provides a flat and broadband phase window for the CPA system, which leads to high-fidelity recompressed pulses. ? 2002 Optical Society of America INTRODUCTION Since the invention of the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique for generating ultraintense femtosecond pulses1,2,the peak power of femtosecond laser pulses has been boosted to multiterawatt and even petawatt levels.3-5 In a CPA system, a seed pulse is stretched by a stretcher to a picosecond or a nanosecond time range, then seeded to an amplifier, and finally recompressed to its original width. The stretcher can be an optical fiber, a piece of bulk dispersive material, or a grating-telescope stretcher,5-10all of which provide positive dispersion. A compressor that makes use of either a prism pair or a grating pair offers negative dispersion to cancel out t