• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 11, 110502 (2020)
Changhe Zhou1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202018.110502 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Changhe Zhou. Chirped pulse amplification: review and prospective from diffractive optics [Invited][J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(11): 110502 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    It is well-known that the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique won the award for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to Mourou and Strickland. The compression and stretching using gratings is the essence of the CPA technique for amplifying femtosecond laser pulses. It seems the public is less aware that there are also other structures for compression and stretching of femtosecond laser pulses using other diffractive gratings, such as doubled-density gratings and deep-etched gratings. Therefore, from the view of diffractive optics, the CPA technique is reviewed with different approaches and experimental implementations that are not only useful for a more comprehensive retrospective overview of CPA, but also for the prospective of the CPA technique, which might lead us to new areas of picometer and femtometer optics in the future.
    Changhe Zhou. Chirped pulse amplification: review and prospective from diffractive optics [Invited][J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(11): 110502
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