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用于超快高功率激光器的非对称四光栅压缩器

Asymmetric four-grating compressor for ultrafast high power lasers

Xiong Shen, Shuman Du, Jun Liu, Ruxin Li

摘要:

由于光学元件的尺寸和损伤阈值受到限制,激光对光学元件的损伤限制了拍瓦(PW)激光器峰值功率的提高和运行安全。脉冲压缩器中的衍射光栅一直是脉宽激光器中最短的板条,因此制作高质量的米级光栅仍然是一个挑战。本文提出了一种用于PW激光器的非对称四光栅压缩器(AFGC),与传统的对称结构Treacy四光栅压缩器(TFGC)相比,在不增加光学元件和不增加额外控制的情况下,提高了PW激光器的最大输出脉冲能量和运行安全性。在AFGC中,可以在输出激光束中引入适当的空间色散,这能够减小输出光束在最终光栅上的激光空间强度调制(LSIM)。引入的空间色散可以通过使用时空聚焦技术在焦平面处自动补偿。基于这种简单的AFGC设计,不仅可以降低最终光栅的损坏风险,而且理论上最大输出脉冲能量可以提高约1.8倍。作为一个例子,100 PW的输出功率理论上可以通过使用AFGC与输入光束尺寸为550*700 mm 2。

英文摘要:

The peak power improvement and running safety of petawatt (PW) lasers are limited by laser-induced damage of optical components with limited sizes and damage thresholds. Diffraction gratings in pulse compressors have been the shortest stave of PW lasers up to now, as to manufacture a high quality meter-sized grating remains particularly challenging. Here, the asymmetric four-grating compressor (AFGC) with asymmetric configuration is proposed for PW lasers to increase the maximum bearable output pulse energy and running safety without neither additional optical component nor extra control in comparison to a traditional Treacy four-grating compressor (TFGC) with symmetric configuration. In AFGC, suitable spatial dispersion can be introduced in the output laser beam which is able to decrease the laser spatial intensity modulation (LSIM) of the output beam on the final grating. The introduced spatial dispersion can be automatically compensated at the focal plane by using the spatiotemporal focusing technique. Based on this simple AFGC design, not only the damage risk of the final grating can be reduced, but also the maximum output pulse energy can be improved by about 1.8 times theoretically. As an example, 100 PW output power can be achieved theoretically by using the AFGC with an input beam size of 550*700 mm2.

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