Optical chirped beam amplification and propagation
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a source of one or more temporally chirped pulses, at least one dispersive optic adapted to receive, frequency disperse and collimate a spectral content of said chirped pulses at predetermined local spatial coordinates to produce a chirped beam, an amplifier constructed to receive and amplify said chirped beam; and
an optical means arranged to receive and optically compress in time and space said amplified chirped beam.
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Abstract
A short pulse laser system uses dispersive optics in a chirped-beam amplification architecture to produce high peak power pulses and high peak intensities without the potential for intensity dependent damage to downstream optical components after amplification.
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44 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a source of one or more temporally chirped pulses, at least one dispersive optic adapted to receive, frequency disperse and collimate a spectral content of said chirped pulses at predetermined local spatial coordinates to produce a chirped beam, an amplifier constructed to receive and amplify said chirped beam; and
an optical means arranged to receive and optically compress in time and space said amplified chirped beam. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An apparatus, comprising:
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a source of one or more temporally chirped pulses, at least one dispersive optic adapted to receive said chirped pulses, frequency disperse and collimate a spectral content of said chirped pulses at predetermined local spatial coordinates to produce a chirped beam, wherein an amplifier having a predetermined bandwidth is constructed to receive and amplify said chirped beam and wherein said dispersive optic is further adapted to receive amplified temporally chirped pulses from said amplifier and adapted to produce an amplified chirped beam; and
an optical means arranged to receive and optically compress said chirped beam in time and space.
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24. An apparatus, comprising:
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a source of temporally chirped pulses, a first diffraction grating adapted to serially receive and to disperse to predetermined local spatial coordinates, a spectral content of said chirped pulses in one dimension, a second diffraction grating adapted to serially receive and collimate said dispersed pulses from said first diffraction grating to produce a chirped beam, wherein a local spatial spectral content is reduced by the ratio of a predetermined input beam dimension at an input to said first diffraction grating to a designed beam dimension at an output of said second diffraction grating, a Nd;
Glass amplifier, constructed to serially receive said collimated pulses from said second diffraction grating to produce amplified transform limited pulses; and
an optical means for focusing said amplified pulses received from said second diffraction grating, wherein said pulses overlap in space and time at a focus. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of producing an ultra-high peak power pulse, comprising:
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producing one or more temporally chirped pulses from a lasing source having a spectral content, dispersing said spectral content of said chirped pulses in one dimension to predetermined local spatial coordinates, collimating at said predetermined local spatial coordinates said locally dispersed spectral content to produce transform-limited pulses of long local temporal duration in a chirped beam having a chirp ratio between about 2 and about 100, amplifying said transform limited pulses in a solid-state amplifying media; and
compressing in time and space said transform-limited pulses. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43)
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42. A method of producing an ultra-high peak power pulse, comprising:
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producing one or more positive temporally chirped pulses from a lasing source having a spectral content, amplifying said positive temporally chirped pulses in a solid-state amplifying media, dispersing said amplified chirped pulses in one dimension to predetermined local spatial coordinates, collimating said locally dispersed spectral content to produce one or more transform-limited pulses having a long local temporal duration in a chirped beam having a chirp ratio between about 2 and about 100; and
compressing in time and space said chirped beam.
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44. A method comprising:
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producing one or more pulses from a lasing source having a spectral content and a predetermined pulse width, linearly chirping in time said spectral content to produce one or more temporally stretched pulses to be amplified, amplifying said one or more temporally stretched pulses in an amplifying medium, dispersing said amplified chirped pulses in one or more dimensions to predetermined local spatial coordinates, collimating said locally dispersed spectral content to produce one or more transform-limited pulses having a long local temporal duration in a chirped beam; and
compressing in time and space said chirped beam.
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