Cerjan 2006
Cerjan 2006
Cerjan 2006
Charles Cerjan
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550
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cent attempts to construct spatially large-beam petawatt
laser sources must directly confront the size limitations B̂共兲 = exp共2it兲B共t兲dt, 共2兲
introduced by compressor plates.4–6 −⬁
Previous attempts to include lateral spatial effects and the spatial axes are initially oriented in the x – z
have centered upon ray-tracing methods7–9 or the plane so that k · x = k0x sin + k0z cos , with k0 = 2 / 0.
Kirchoff–Fresnel integral-equation approximation.10,11 The reflection of this beam from a diffraction grating is
Ray-tracing methods have the distinct advantage of com- determined by the grating equations for an arbitrary off-
putational speed, leading to rapid parameter searches for plane ray13
optimal operating conditions. On the other hand, this ap-
proach is not readily generalized to more-realistic beam sin ⬘ = − sin 共3兲
profiles and cannot easily estimate beam fluence. The
and
Kirchoff–Fresnel approximation developed by Martinez is
capable of directly capturing many important spatial ef- m
fects but was limited to a normal Gaussian profile.10 The sin + sin ⬘ = , 共4兲
dg cos
development presented in this paper generalizes this lat-
ter approach to arbitrary spatial profiles for a compressor where the primed angles are the reflected angles, m is the
grating pair using a well-established pseudospectral (fast order of the grating, dg is the grating period, and is the
Fourier transform) discretization.12 wavelength. This coordinate system is displayed in Fig. 1.
In the following sections, the underlying simplifications Using the relationship = 2c / , the expression in Eq.
are discussed that establish the basic propgation inte- (4) may be written as
grals in a form that is amenable to numerical treatment.
Section 2 presents the details of the stationary-phase ap- m2c
sin + sin ⬘ = + f共⌬兲, 共5兲
proximation as applied to these specific propagation ker- 0dg cos
nels. It should be noted that this approach yields a first-
order approximation to the previously derived Fresnel- where the higher-order Taylor series expansion of the fre-
Kirchoff Gaussian beam case.10 Finally, representative quency dependence has been collected in the function
numerical results are presented that display the utility f共⌬兲:
and limitations of this development, especially for more- f共⌬兲 ⬇ 1⌬ + 2共⌬兲2 + 1共⌬兲3 + …, 共6兲
realistic beam shapes, including clipped beams arising
from an overfilling of the grating plates. A brief summary with ⌬ = 共 − 0兲. Assuming that all angular deviations
concludes the discussion. are small upon reflection, the spatial coordinates in the
B̂共兲
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A3共x⬙, ,zg兲 = dv1dv2 exp关− 2i共vM兲 · x⬙兴
2 −⬁
⫻ exp − 冋 22izg
k0
共vM兲 · 共Mtv兲 册
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+⬁
⫻ du1du2 exp共2iv · u兲A1共u兲
−⬁
⫻exp关ik0⌬1共M−1u兲1兴, 共12兲
B̂共兲
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reflected coordinates are related by a linear AG共y, ,zg兲 = dv1dv2 exp关− 2i共av1y1 + v2y2兲兴
transformation:13 2 −⬁
x1⬘ = − x1
cos 0
cos 0⬘
− x2
m0 sin 0
dg cos 0 cos 0⬘
, 共7兲 ⫻ exp − 冋 22izg
k0
共a2v12 + v22兲 册
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+⬁
x2⬘ = x2 . 共8兲
⫻ du1du2 exp共2iv · u兲
−⬁
Written in matrix form, this transformation becomes
冉 冊 冉 冊冉 冊
x1⬘
x2⬘
=
a b
0 1
x1
x2
, 共9兲
⫻ exp兵− ik0共u12 + u22兲/关2q共z0兲兴其
⫻exp共ik0⌬1u1/a兲, 共13兲
or x⬘ = Mx, where a and b are the coefficients in Eq. (7). where q共z兲 = z + ik02 / 2 for a beam with spatial width .
The reflected beam, with these first-order approxima- The integrals all have analytic expressions so that
tions, is now expressed as
再
Thus the physical effect of the grating is to transform the
lateral spatial coordinates and to introduce a frequency-
dependent phase.10 To propagate this reflected beam a ⫻ exp ik0 冠 q共z0兲
2zgq共z0 + a2zg兲
冎冡
distance zg to the second grating plate, the pseudospectral
vacuum propagation operator form may be used.12 In
other words, this well-known technique requires multipli- ⫻关共y1 − zg⌬1兲2 + y22兴 . 共14兲
cation of the Fourier transform of the initial beam by the
exponential form of the momentum space operator, fol-
lowed by an inverse Fourier transform on the combined Qualitatively, the grating displaces the in-plane spatial
function. Mathematically, then, the beam reflected from coordinate by an amount proportional to the propagation
the first grating and propagated to the second grating has distance, frequency shift, and grating parameters. This
the form result agrees with the Kirchoff–Fresnel expression de-
rived previously.10 In effect, the split-step Fourier trans-
B̂共兲
冕 form representation provides a numerically efficient
+⬁
A3共x⬙, ,zg兲 = dk1dk2exp共− 2ik · x⬙兲 evaluation of the Fresnel–Kirchoff integral,14 as may be
2 −⬁ immediately seen by interchanging the order of integra-
冉 22izg
冊 tion in Eq. (11) and noticing that
冉 冊
⫻exp − k·k
k0
冕 22izg
+⬁
dk1dk2 exp关2ik · 共x − x⬙兲兴exp −
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+⬁
k·k
−⬁
k0
冋 册
⫻ dx1dx2 exp共2ik · x兲A1共Mx兲
−⬁ ik0
= exp − 共x − x⬙兲2 . 共15兲
⫻exp共ik0x11⌬兲. 共11兲 2zg
Now, by switching integration variables in both integrals, Returning to the general development, the lateral spa-
the propagated beam may be expressed as tial coordinates of the beam reflected from the second
144 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B / Vol. 23, No. 1 / January 2006 Charles Cerjan
grating plate are transformed by a matrix M̃, and a The second integral has the explicit value
frequency-dependent phase ˜1 appears so that the re-
flected beam has the form 冕−⬁
+⬁
dk1dk2exp关2ik · 共M−1u − x⬙兲兴exp − 冉 冊 22izg
k0
k·k
冉 冊 冉 冊
B̂共兲
A4共x⬙, ,zg兲 = exp关ik0⌬˜1共M̃x⬙兲1兴 i s12 s22
2 = exp i exp i , 共19兲
4d1 4d1 4d1
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+⬁
⫻ dv1dv2exp关− 2i共vM兲 · 共M̃x⬙兲兴 where s = 共M−1u − x⬙兲 and d1 = −zg / 共2k0兲. The remaining
−⬁ double integral thus becomes
⫻ exp − 冋 22izg
k0
共v · MMt · v兲 册 冕−⬁
+⬁
ds1ds2A1关M共s + x⬙兲兴exp关ik0⌬1共s1 + x1⬙ 兲兴
冕 冉 冊 冉 冊
+⬁
ia s12 s22
⫻ du1du2 exp共2iv · u兲A1共u兲 ⫻ exp i exp i . 共20兲
−⬁ 4d1 4d1 4d1
⫻exp关ik0⌬1共M−1u兲1兴. 共16兲 The phase variation is very rapid for propagation dis-
tances on the order of meters and wavelengths in mi-
Ideally, compensating plates are thus required to fulfill
crometers, so the major contribution to the integral is
the condition MM̃ = I, which corresponds to an inversion of given by the regions of stationary phase in the exponen-
the incident and reflected in-plane angles 共⬘ ↔ 兲 while tial factors, namely ssp = 共−2d1k0⌬1 , 0兲. Applying this
fixing the out-of-plane angle 共⬘ = 兲. When this condition result produces the approximation
is fulfilled, an effective calculational grid method arises
for nonanalytic beams. That is, for a given input beam, Asp共x⬙, ,zg兲 ⬇ A1关a共x1⬙ − zg⌬1兲,x2⬙ 兴
possibly defined only on a grid, the algorithm is as fol-
⫻exp关ik0⌬1共x1⬙ − zg⌬1兲兴. 共21兲
lows. First, multiply the beam by the appropriate
frequency-dependent phase factor and spatially trans- Thus reflection from a grating adds a frequency-
form the product; second, multiply by the exponential dependent displacement to the in-plane lateral coordi-
propagation kernel; and finally, multiply the inverse Fou- nate.
rier transform of this product by another frequency- This last expression may be used to estimate lateral
dependent phase factor. propagation effects when an analytic form of the incident
Again, for the case of an ideally compensating grating beam is known. For the special case of a Gaussian beam,
pair, the final form of the Gaussian beam in Eq. (14) has this form matches the Kirchoff–Fresnel result10
冉 冊 冋 册
the form
k 0x 2 ik0q共z0兲
B̂共兲 exp关ik0zg⌬212/2兴 exp − i exp 共x − zg⌬1兲2 共22兲
AG共x⬙, ,zg兲 = 2zg 2zgq共z0 + a2zg兲
2 冑关q共z0 + a zg兲/q共z0兲兴
2 1/2
再冋 册冎
to first order. Specifically, noting that
共x1⬙ − zg⌬1兲2 + 共x2⬙ 兲2
⫻ exp ik0 . q共z0兲 a 2z g
2q共z0 + a zg兲
2 ⬇1− , 共23兲
q共z0 + a2zg兲 q共z0兲
共17兲
where the wavelength is much smaller than the propaga-
This result is identical to the Kirchoff–Fresnel expression tion distance, the fully propagated Gaussian beam is ap-
derived earlier.10 proximately
3. STATIONARY-PHASE APPROXIMATION
Although Eq. (12) generally requires numerical treat-
exp i 冋 k 0a 2
2q共z0兲
册
共x − zg⌬1兲2 exp关ik0⌬1共x − zg⌬1兲兴.
冉 冊
4. NUMERICAL EXAMPLES
22izg
⫻ exp − k·k . 共18兲 The efficacy of the above development is easily demon-
k0 strated numerically. As a specific example, consider a
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冋
exp − ik0
共x2 + y2兲
q0 + z0
册 , 共28兲
冋
sech − ik0
共x2 + y2兲
q0 + z0
册 , 共29兲
冋
exp −
共x2 + y6兲
6
册 . 共30兲
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