4 papers
Flying focus with arbitrary directionality for spatiotemporal control of laser pulses
Sida Cao, Devdigvijay Singh, Lavonne S. Mack +2
Flying focus techniques produce laser pulses whose focal points travel at arbitrary, controllable velocities. While this flexibility can enhance a broad range of laser-based applic…
Dispersive Properties of Plasma Diffraction Gratings: Towards Plasma-Based Laser Pulse Compression
Victor M. Perez-Ramirez, Michelle M. Wang, Ke Ou +10
The standard architecture for a high-peak-power femtosecond laser is chirped pulse amplification using diffraction gratings for compression; the damage threshold of the compression…
Near-Unity-Efficiency Gas Gratings for Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infrared High-Power Lasers
Ke Ou, Harsha Rajesh, Sida Cao +13
Interfering deep ultraviolet (DUV) lasers can induce substantial density modulations in an ozone-doped gas flow via photochemical reactions, creating volume diffraction gratings. T…
Focusing Terawatt-Scale Lasers Using Holographic Gaseous Lenses
Devdigvijay Singh, Ke Ou, Sida Cao +13
The capabilities of the world's highest energy and peak-power pulsed lasers are limited by optical damage, and further advances in high-intensity laser science will require optics…