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L C L S C O N C E P T U A L D E S I G N R E P O R T<br />

section on stability. Fourier-relay optics (described below), beginning with a primary aperture<br />

between the two amplifiers and continuing to the final optics platform next to the gun, are used to<br />

maintain a good transverse mode while efficiently filling the pumped volume of the Ti:sapphire<br />

crystals.<br />

In amplifiers for picosecond and especially sub-picosecond pulses, the peak power must be<br />

limited to avoid damage to optical components and nonlinearities. Chirped pulse amplification<br />

[37] is used to reduce the peak power in the amplifier. The large bandwidth of the Ti:sapphire<br />

oscillator, which enables it to produce the 0.5-ps rise time required for the shaped pulse, also<br />

permits the pulse to be stretched to hundreds of picoseconds. In the dispersive region between a<br />

pair of gratings, different wavelengths take different optical paths. The resulting space, time, and<br />

wavelength correlations are then used to stretch the pulse. After amplification, the process can be<br />

reversed to compress the pulse to the original or any greater width. In addition, the oscillator’s<br />

large bandwidth allows the pulse to be shaped in time by manipulating its Fourier transform<br />

under computer control (see below). Figure 6.14 includes the pulse shaper and stretcher after the<br />

oscillator and a compressor after the amplifier. An additional low-power compressor after the<br />

oscillator is used as a diagnostic for the pulse shaper. It compresses the pulses from the 89-MHz<br />

train that are not selected by the Pockels-cell gate. A cross-correlator using a portion of the<br />

oscillator light can then probe the resulting pulse shape.<br />

6-27 ♦ I NJECTOR

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