We present a comprehensive simulative and experimental investigation of how period-chirped pulse compression gratings affect the compressed pulses. A specifically developed ray-tracing tool was used for the simulative investigations. It is shown that the chirp creates a characteristic spatio-spectral error pattern, which leads to a degradation of the beam quality and an increase of the pulse duration. The experimental investigations, for which both a narrow-bandwidth continuous-wave and a pulsed laser beam were guided through a Treacy-compressor comprised of period-chirped gratings, confirm the simulation results and present methods on how to identify the chirp's characteristic error pattern in practice.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Bienert.23.Detrimental
%A Bienert, Florian
%A Röcker, Christoph
%A Dietrich, Tom
%A Graf, Thomas
%A Abdou Ahmed, Marwan
%D 2023
%I Optica Publishing Group
%J Opt. Express
%K
%N 24
%P 40687--40704
%R 10.1364/OE.505875
%T Detrimental effects of period-chirped gratings in pulse compressors
%U https://opg.optica.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-31-24-40687
%V 31
%X We present a comprehensive simulative and experimental investigation of how period-chirped pulse compression gratings affect the compressed pulses. A specifically developed ray-tracing tool was used for the simulative investigations. It is shown that the chirp creates a characteristic spatio-spectral error pattern, which leads to a degradation of the beam quality and an increase of the pulse duration. The experimental investigations, for which both a narrow-bandwidth continuous-wave and a pulsed laser beam were guided through a Treacy-compressor comprised of period-chirped gratings, confirm the simulation results and present methods on how to identify the chirp's characteristic error pattern in practice.
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abstract = {We present a comprehensive simulative and experimental investigation of how period-chirped pulse compression gratings affect the compressed pulses. A specifically developed ray-tracing tool was used for the simulative investigations. It is shown that the chirp creates a characteristic spatio-spectral error pattern, which leads to a degradation of the beam quality and an increase of the pulse duration. The experimental investigations, for which both a narrow-bandwidth continuous-wave and a pulsed laser beam were guided through a Treacy-compressor comprised of period-chirped gratings, confirm the simulation results and present methods on how to identify the chirp's characteristic error pattern in practice.},
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author = {Bienert, Florian and Röcker, Christoph and Dietrich, Tom and Graf, Thomas and Abdou Ahmed, Marwan},
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title = {Detrimental effects of period-chirped gratings in pulse compressors},
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