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Compression grating alignment by far-field monitoring

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Slight non-parallelism of the gratings in the compressor of a chirped-pulse amplification laser system produces angular chirp which results in a significant reduction of the focused intensity due to elongation of the pulse duration and enlargement of the focal spot. The effect of three-dimensional relative misalignment angles between two gratings on the far-field pattern of the pulses propagating through them is investigated by ray tracing. The far-field pattern provides two-dimensional information of the uncompensated angular dispersion directly. A simple and intuitive alignment procedure to achieve parallelism of the compression gratings by far-field monitoring is demonstrated experimentally, while the alignment precision is found to be the same as the methods proposed previously.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China

    F. Liu, X. L. Liu, Z. H. Wang, J. L. Ma, X. Liu, L. Zhang, J. Wang, S. J. Wang, X. X. Lin, Y. T. Li, L. M. Chen, Z. Y. Wei & J. Zhang

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    J. Wang

  3. Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P.R. China

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Liu, F., Liu, X.L., Wang, Z.H. et al. Compression grating alignment by far-field monitoring. Appl. Phys. B 101, 587–591 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-010-4237-x

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