title: High-dispersive mirrors for femtosecond lasers.
abstract: We report on the development of highly dispersive mirrors for chirped-pulse oscillators (CPO) and amplifiers (CPA). In this proof-of-concept study, we demonstrate the usability of highly dispersive multilayer mirrors for high-energy femtosecond oscillators, namely for i) a chirped-pulse Ti:Sa oscillator and ii) an Yb:YAG disk oscillator. In both cases a group delay dispersion (GDD) of the order of 2x10(4) fs(2) was introduced, accompanied with an overall transmission loss as low as approximately 2 per cent. This unprecedented combination of high dispersion and low loss over a sizeable bandwidth with multilayer structures opens the prospects for femtosecond CPA systems equipped with a compact, alignment-insensitive all-mirror compressors providing compensation of GDD as well as higher-order dispersion.
authors.affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Am Coulombwall 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany. volodymyr.pervak@mpq.mpg.de
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authors.lastname: Pervak
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authors.lastname: Teisset
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authors.lastname: Sugita
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authors.lastname: Naumov
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authors.lastname: Krausz
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