Abstract

Angular dispersion amplification can be used to design compact dispersive delay generators with delay amplification. A specific design is presented that can be used to generate $1\mathrm{ns}$ delay for two wavelengths separated by $1\mathrm{nm}$. The delay generator can be easily switched from a positive to a negative group velocity delay and can be used as a pulse compressor, a pulse stretcher, or a pulse shaper in chirped pulse amplification, high-resolution time-gated spectroscopy as well as other applications.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

Compact curved-grating stretcher for laser pulse amplification

O. E. Martínez and C. M. González Inchauspe
Opt. Lett. 22(11) 811-813 (1997)

Cross-correlation technique for dispersion characterization of chirped volume Bragg gratings

Oleksiy Andrusyak, Lionel Canioni, Ion Cohanoschi, Eugeniu Rotari, Vadim Smirnov, George Venus, and Leonid Glebov
Appl. Opt. 48(30) 5786-5792 (2009)

Chirped-pulse amplification of laser pulses with dispersive mirrors

V. Pervak, I. Ahmad, S. A. Trushin, Zs. Major, A. Apolonski, S. Karsch, and F. Krausz
Opt. Express 17(21) 19204-19212 (2009)

Use of mismatched grating pairs in chirped-pulse amplification systems

Jeff Squier, Chris P. J. Barty, François Salin, Catherine Le Blanc, and Steve Kane
Appl. Opt. 37(9) 1638-1641 (1998)

Analytical expressions for group-delay dispersion and third-order dispersion of a reflection grism-pair compressor

Juan Su and Guoying Feng
Appl. Opt. 51(14) 2747-2751 (2012)