Abstract
In a stretcher, the surface distortion of the optical elements can introduce spectral phase modulations into the laser, which can affect the laser’s signal-to-noise ratio. In this paper, by combining ray tracing methods and angular spectrum diffraction methods, the impact of the mid-frequency surface distortion of the optical elements in an cylindrical Offner stretcher on the far-field signal-to-noise ratio of the laser is simulated. The results show that reducing the spatial chirp on the convex cylindrical mirror can effectively improve the far-field signal-to-noise ratio of the laser, and two methods to improve the far-field signal-to-noise ratio are presented.
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