Design of a stretcher-compressor for a blue-green high contrast multiterawatt femtosecond laser chain

In this paper, we present results of a ray tracing simulation of a stretcher-compressor arrangement for blue-green high contrast multiterawatt femtosecond laser Ti:sapphire laser chain, not only in terms of final pulse duration and contrast, but also with respect to the alignment sensitivity and the optical quality of components. The ray tracing simulation uses OSLO software and includes dispersion of the materials of the laser chain.