title: Compensation of self-phase modulation in chirped-pulse amplification laser systems.
abstract: Small amounts of self-phase modulation can lead to significant pulse distortions in chirped-pulse amplifiers. However, we show the surprising result that the strong chirp of the pulse can be exploited to remove these distortions completely by linear pulse shaping before amplification.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Norris