Abstract
We propose, for the first time, a novel pulse stretcher for high power lasers using two transmission gratings and demonstrate its superiority over conventional, reflective grating stretchers in terms of pulse temporal quality. We show that, compared to a conventional stretcher with the same stretching factor, the transmission-grating based stretcher yields more than an order of magnitude improvement in the contrast pedestal.
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