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Compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses through an argon-filled tapered planar waveguide

Chen, Shihua ; Jarnac, Amelie ; Houard, Aurelien ; Liu, Yi ; Arnold, Cord LU ; Zhou, Bing ; Forestier, Benjamin ; Prade, Bernard and Mysyrowicz, Andre (2011) In Optical Society of America. Journal B: Optical Physics 28(5). p.1009-1012
Abstract
We propose a hollow tapered planar waveguide for compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses. Direct measurements suggest that it seems to find a very good trade-off among the energy throughput, the beam focusability, and the pulse compressibility. With a Ti:sapphire laser pulse of 12.0 mJ and 40 fs, our experiment produces an output pulse of 9: 4 fs duration with energy 9: 1 mJ (transverse magnetic mode) or 10: 0 mJ (transverse electric mode) in argon, each exhibiting a nice spatial mode. To evaluate such a tapered waveguide, the linear wave propagation theory and the solution to its complex propagation constant are also presented. c 2011 Optical Society of America
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  author       = {{Chen, Shihua and Jarnac, Amelie and Houard, Aurelien and Liu, Yi and Arnold, Cord and Zhou, Bing and Forestier, Benjamin and Prade, Bernard and Mysyrowicz, Andre}},
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  series       = {{Optical Society of America. Journal B: Optical Physics}},
  title        = {{Compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses through an argon-filled tapered planar waveguide}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.28.001009}},
  doi          = {{10.1364/JOSAB.28.001009}},
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