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Effects of primary spherical aberration, coma, astigmatism and field curvature on the focusing of ultrashort pulses: homogenous illumination

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We analyze the spatiotemporal intensity of pulses with durations of 20fs and shorter and a carrier wavelength of 810nm at the paraxial focal plane of an achromatic doublet lens. The incident pulse is well-collimated, and we use the Seidel aberration theory for thin lenses to evaluate the phase change due to the aberrations of the lens. In a set of cemented thin lenses with the stop at the lens, there is only spherical aberration, coma, astigmatism and field curvature, whereas the distortion aberration in the phase front is zero. We analyze the effect of these aberrations in the focusing of ultrashort pulses for homogenous illumination. We will show that the temporal spreading introduced by these aberrations in pulses shorter than 20fs at 810nm is very small but the spatial spreading is not, which reduces the intensity of the pulse considerably.

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