Split-aperture laser pulse compressor design tolerant to alignment and line-density differences
Split-aperture laser pulse compressor design tolerant to alignment and line-density differences is a scholarly work by Noriaki Miyanaga, Ryosuke Kodama, Kazuo A Tanaka, Michael C Rushford, Jerald A Britten, Takahisa Jitsuno, and Kiminori Kondo, published in 2008 in ''Optics Letters''. The main subjects of the publication include line, optics, adaptive optics, physics, Holographic grating, Blazed grating, laser, Ultrasonic grating, compressor, diffraction grating, Aperture, materials science, phase, and grating. The authors introduce a four-pass laser pulse compressor design based on two grating apertures with two gratings per aperture that is tolerant to some alignment errors and, importantly, to grating-to-grating period variations.