Large-aperture grating tiling by interferometry for petawatt chirped-pulse-amplification systems
Author(s) -
Junpeng Qiao,
A. Kalb,
M. J. Guardalben,
G. King,
D. Canning,
J. H. Kelly
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.15.009562
Subject(s) - optics , chirped pulse amplification , grating , interferometry , diffraction grating , wavefront , physics , laser , ultrashort pulse , materials science
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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