Chirped-pulse amplification system based on chirp reversal and near-field spatial reversal with common tiled grating pair as stretcher and compressor

摘要

Chirped-pulse amplification system based on chirp reversal in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The operation of this system can be described as negative stretching--temporal chirp reversal--energy amplification--negative compression, in which the pulse is stretched and compressed with the same gratings. Stand-alone stretcher adopting lenses or concave mirrors with large aperture can be omitted. Simulations showed that this work mode can also increase the cut-off band-pass of the whole system and increase the output energy by 15-17percent. In addition, the stability of a tiled-grating compressor can be improved with this work mode.