A Petawatt facility called PETAL (PETawatt Aquitaine Laser) is under development near the LIL (Ligne
d'Integration Laser) at CEA Cesta, France. PETAL facility uses chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique. This system needs large pulse compression grating exhibiting damage threshold of more than 4 J/cm2
normal beam at 1.053μm and for 500fs pulses. In this paper, we study an alternative design to the classic
multilayer dielectric (MLD) grating called "mixed
metal-multilayer dielectric grating" (MMLD). This design
consists in a gold reflective layer coated with a few pairs of HfO2/SiO2. The top low index SiO2 layer of the
stack is then engraved to receive the grating. We evidenced in a previous work that leads to high efficient
pulse compression gratings. We have shown in last Boulder Damage Symposium that mixed mirror is
equivalent to a "classic" MLD mirror. We herein detail the damage performances obtained on the MMLD
gratings and compare them with these of MLD gratings.
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