Abstract

1. Publications¹,² showed that dielectric mirrors with special phase properties, the so-called chirped mirrors, can be successfully used to design femtosecond lasers with very short pulse duration. These publications caused a considerable interest to the design and theory of chirped mirrors. The original approach¹ to the design of chirped mirrors was based on the refinement of a properly chosen starting design. A starting design was a multilayer mirror with monotonically varying layer thicknesses. An alternative approach³,⁴ based on the transmission line theory resulted in the analytic technique for the design of chirped mirrors.

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