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Optimized bifocal conic section mirrors for single-wavelength sized focusing

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posted on 2023-12-14, 09:33 authored by Zhaoyang Li, Yanqi Liu, Xiaoyang Guo, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li
Compressing all the energy of a laser pulse into a spatiotemporal focal cube edged by the laser center wavelength will realize the highest intensity of an ultra-intense ultrashort laser facility, which is called as the 3 regime or the 3 laser. Conic sections with two foci that can be used as secondary focusing mirrors to reduce the focal spot size from several wavelengths to one wavelength. We investigate the optimal focusing conditions for ellipse mirrors and propose hyperbola mirrors - another important conic section also with two foci - for single-wavelength sized focusing, which can also produce the same reduced minimum focal spots as ellipse mirrors.

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National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFA1604401); Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (22560780100,23560750200); National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (61925507)

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111154

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