Achieving 100 GW idler pulses from an existing petawatt optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier

S Bucht, RG Roides, B Webb, D Haberberger… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical parametric chirped-pulse-amplification produces two broadband pulses, a signal
and an idler, that can both provide peak powers> 100 GW. In most cases the signal is used …

Methodology for designing grism stretchers for idler-based optical parametric chirped-pulse-amplification systems

S Bucht, D Haberberger, J Bromage, DH Froula - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Powerful ultrafast lasers with wavelengths above 1 μm are in demand to create attosecond
pulses and ultra-intense laser sources. A promising technology to achieve these laser …

Ray-tracing analysis of a single-grating stretcher with an arbitrary three-mirror unit-magnification telescope

P Kostryukov - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
This paper considers the general case of a single-grating femtosecond stretcher with an
arbitrary ratio of radii of curvature of the telescope mirrors R_1/R_2, including the particular …