Search Results - "Alessi, David A"
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Femtosecond damage experiments and modeling of broadband mid-infrared dielectric diffraction gratings
Published in Optics express (22-11-2021)“…High peak and average power lasers with high wall-plug efficiency, like the Big Aperture Thulium (BAT) laser, have garnered tremendous attention in laser…”
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Active cooling of pulse compression diffraction gratings for high energy, high average power ultrafast lasers
Published in Optics express (26-12-2016)“…Laser energy absorption and subsequent heat removal from diffraction gratings in chirped pulse compressors poses a significant challenge in high repetition…”
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Low-dispersion low-loss dielectric gratings for efficient ultrafast laser pulse compression at high average powers
Published in Optics and laser technology (01-09-2019)“…•We fabricated 1480 lines/mm gratings having 97% efficiency over 50 nm at λ = 810 nm.•Resonances were eliminated by modifying both the multilayer stack and the…”
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Pulse compressor architecture to enable next-generation high-energy petawatt-class lasers
Published in Optics express (04-11-2024)“…The maximum energy obtainable within a single aperture of a high-energy petawatt-class (HEPW) laser is typically limited by the pulse compressor. This work…”
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Picosecond laser damage performance assessment of multilayer dielectric gratings in vacuum
Published in Optics express (15-06-2015)“…Precise assessment of the high fluence performance of pulse compressor gratings is necessary to determine the safe operational limits of short-pulse high…”
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Low-dispersion low-loss dielectric gratings for efficient ultrafast laser pulse compression at high average powers
Published 06-11-2018“…We have developed low-dispersion (1480 l/mm), resonance-free, diffraction gratings made of dielectric materials resistant to femtosecond laser damage…”
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Order of magnitude increase in laser-target coupling at near-relativistic intensities using compound parabolic concentrators
Published 21-12-2020“…Phys. Rev. E 103, 031201 (2021) Achieving a high conversion efficiency into relativistic electrons is central to short-pulse laser application and…”
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