METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PULSE DURATION AND ENERGY OF LASER RADIATION, DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD, AND LASER SYSTEM WITH THE INTEGRATED DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:EP4300729A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-03

    申请号:EP23182427.7

    申请日:2023-06-29

    申请人: UAB "Ekspla"

    摘要: This invention relates to methods and devices for controlling a chirp and duration of a laser radiation pulse. At the same time, pulse energy is also controlled. The device of the present invention includes a ring optical circuit featuring laser beam diffraction compensation, dispersion and amplification. The ultrashort input pulse makes a predetermined number of roundtrips. During each roundtrip of the ring optical circuit, an amplified phase-modulated (chirped) pulse is formed, part of which is outcoupled as an output pulse. A sequence of output pulses of different durations is formed. One output pulse of the required duration is extracted from said sequence of output pulses with the help of an optical switch. Since the energy of the pulse is restored or increased at each roundtrip of the ring optical circuit, the number of roundtrips is unlimited. Duration of the pulses is varied within a wide range of values from several hundred femtoseconds to several tens of nanoseconds, preserving a coherence length not larger than 300 µm. The device of the present invention can be used as a very compact, purely electronically controlled and with flexible parameters pulse stretcher in a chirped pulse amplification system.