Fig. 1: Schematic of ultra-broadband grating compression effect.
From: 400nm ultra-broadband gratings for near-single-cycle 100 Petawatt lasers
Grating diffraction bandwidth determines the compressed pulse duration and intensity of PW lasers. At the same 100-PW system architecture deployed with the normal gold grating, a 400 nm ultra-broadband grating compressor enables a near-single-cycle Exawatt-class (>200 PW) pulse compression.
