A chirped mirror is a dielectric mirror with chirped spaces between the dielectric layers (stack). On the surface is an anti-reflective coating, since this reflection does not fit in the big picture. To eliminate residual reflections from the surface in the case of multiple mirrors, the distance between the surface and the stack is different for every mirror. A dielectric mirror is a special kind of a mirror. ... Anti-reflective coatings are a type of optical coating applied to lenses and other devices to reduce reflection from optical surfaces. ...

Application

• Chirped pulse amplification
• Ti-sapphire laser
• Kerr-lens modelocking

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) or optical parametric chirped pulse amplification, is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to the petawatt level with the laser pulse being stretched out temporally and spectrally prior to amplification. ... Part of a Ti:sapphire oscillator. ... Kerr-lens modelocking is a method of modelocking lasers via a nonlinear optical process known as the optical Kerr effect. ...

External links

• Chirped mirror description (in the Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology)