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26 February 2004Diffraction gratings production for LIL high-power laser: an overview
Unlike other drive fusion class laser, Megajoule laser (LMJ) and its first prototype, the Laser Integration Line (LIL) are equiped with specific diffractive optical components. All these optics are situated in the final optic assembly.
An high efficiency diffraction focusing grating called 3w grating is used to focus the beam into the center of the target chamber instead of a classical focusing lens. Another large grating called 1w grating is used for optical path compensation purposes. Both gratings have a dimension of 420x470mm2 and are working at an incidence of 25°. Gratings are plano transmission holographic gratings directly engraved into fused silica substrates. The 1w grating is working at the wavelength of 1.053μm, its grooves are straight and equispaced. The 3w grating, is a focusing grating working at the wavelength of 0.351μm. Its grooves are curved and non equispaced.
Jobin Yvon was selected by CEA to manufacture these two types of diffraction graintgs. After processes developpements and facilitization, a complete batch of twelve 1w gratings and sixteen 3w gratings were delivered to CEA for integration.
After a brief presentation of CEA's specification for this diffractive components, we give some details on the manufacturing processes. We also demonstrate good agreement between specified and manufactured component. We give an overview of the global production performances
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Jerome Neauport, Jean Flamand, Yves Josserand, Francis Bonnemason, Philippe Bouchut, Bruno Touzet, Gaelle Ficini, "Diffraction gratings production for LIL high-power laser: an overview," Proc. SPIE 5252, Optical Fabrication, Testing, and Metrology, (26 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.513227