Open AccessThird-order spectral phase compensation in parabolic pulse compression
Author(s) -
Yoann Zaouter,
Dimitris P. Papadopoulos,
Michael G. Hanna,
F. Druon,
Eric Cormier,
Patrick Georges
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.15.009372
Subject(s) - optics , pulse compression , gas compressor , bandwidth (computing) , materials science , pulse shaping , ultrashort pulse , diffraction grating , dispersion (optics) , phase (matter) , grating , physics , computer science , laser , telecommunications , radar , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
We report on the use of a hybrid compressor system consisting in a set of prisms embedded in a sequence of gratings specifically designed to optimize the compression of amplified parabolic pulses. Spectral phase measurements confirm that, as opposed to traditional gratings compressors, the third-order spectral phase is efficiently compensated in our system. We show that compression optimization leads to the enhancement of the temporal Strehl ratio from 0.67 using conventional compressor to 0.96 using our system. We demonstrate that prisms embedded gratings compressors assert itself as a simple and efficient solution to third-order dispersion compensation as this issue grows rapidly with the scaling of the performance in energy and bandwidth of parabolic fiber amplifiers.