Large-aperture grating tiling by interferometry for petawatt chirped-pulse–amplification systems
Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 15, pp. 9562-9574 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.009562
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Abstract
A tiled-grating assembly with three large-scale gratings is developed with real-time interferometric tiling control for the OMEGA EP Laser Facility. An automatic tiling method is achieved and used to tile a three-tile grating assembly with the overall wavefront reconstructed. Tiling-parameters sensitivity and focal-spot degradation from all combined tiling errors are analyzed for a pulse compressor composed of four such assemblies.
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OCIS Codes
(050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
(320.5520) Ultrafast optics : Pulse compression
ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics
History
Original Manuscript: May 7, 2007
Revised Manuscript: June 13, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: June 17, 2007
Published: July 17, 2007
Citation
J. Qiao, A. Kalb, M. J. Guardalben, G. King, D. Canning, and J. H. Kelly, "Large-aperture grating tiling by interferometry for petawatt chirped-pulse–amplification systems," Opt. Express 15, 9562-9574 (2007)
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