Abstract
A novel configuration of a low-aberration single diffraction grating stretcher for femtosecond chirped-pulse amplification lasers is proposed. The stretcher configuration employs two identical concave parabolic mirrors separated by a distance equal to their focal length. Using the numerical ray-tracing approach, the proposed design is compared with conventional Martinez and Öffner configurations in terms of high-order dispersions, aberrations of the spectral phase, and angular chirp. Although the proposed design is not completely aberration-free, it can exhibit comparable or lower aberrations than those of the single-grating Öffner configuration with similar parameters.
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Kostryukov, P. Low-aberration single-grating femtosecond stretcher with two concave parabolic mirrors. Appl. Phys. B 127, 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-021-07577-x
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