title: Tiled-grating compressor with uncompensated dispersion for near-field-intensity smoothing.
abstract: A tiled-grating compressor, in which the spatial dispersion is not completely compensated, reduces the near-field-intensity modulation caused by tiling gaps and provides near-field spatial filtering of the input laser beam, thus reducing the laser damage to the final optics.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA. huhu@lle.rochester.e
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Terrance
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kessler