Few-cycle pulse generation by double-stage hybrid multi-pass multi-plate nonlinear pulse compression
Viotti, Anne Lise LU
; Li, Chen
; Arisholm, Gunnar
; Winkelmann, Lutz
; Hartl, Ingmar
; Heyl, Christoph M.
and Seidel, Marcus
(2023)
In Optics Letters
48(4).
p.984-987
- Abstract
Few-cycle pulses present an essential tool to track ultrafast dynamics in matter and drive strong field effects. To address photon-hungry applications, high average power lasers are used which, however, cannot directly provide sub-100-fs pulse durations. Post-compression of laser pulses by spectral broadening and dispersion compensation is the most efficient method to overcome this limitation. We present a notably compact setup which turns a 0.1-GW peak power, picosecond burst-mode laser into a 2.9-GW peak power, 8.2-fs source. The 120-fold pulse duration shortening is accomplished in a two-stage hybrid multi-pass, multi-plate compression setup. To our knowledge, neither shorter pulses nor higher peak powers have been reported to-date... (More)
Few-cycle pulses present an essential tool to track ultrafast dynamics in matter and drive strong field effects. To address photon-hungry applications, high average power lasers are used which, however, cannot directly provide sub-100-fs pulse durations. Post-compression of laser pulses by spectral broadening and dispersion compensation is the most efficient method to overcome this limitation. We present a notably compact setup which turns a 0.1-GW peak power, picosecond burst-mode laser into a 2.9-GW peak power, 8.2-fs source. The 120-fold pulse duration shortening is accomplished in a two-stage hybrid multi-pass, multi-plate compression setup. To our knowledge, neither shorter pulses nor higher peak powers have been reported to-date from bulk multi-pass cells alone, manifesting the power of the hybrid approach. It puts, for instance, compact, cost-efficient, and high repetition rate attosecond sources within reach.
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- author
- Viotti, Anne Lise
LU
; Li, Chen
; Arisholm, Gunnar
; Winkelmann, Lutz
; Hartl, Ingmar
; Heyl, Christoph M.
and Seidel, Marcus
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-02-15
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Optics Letters
- volume
- 48
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- Optical Society of America
- external identifiers
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- pmid:36790995
- scopus:85148249845
- ISSN
- 0146-9592
- DOI
- 10.1364/OL.478790
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 15091011-ffe9-40f3-b479-cfb21892a56f
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