Extremely short pulse compression in bulk materials: A scheme for generating few cycle intense laser pulse

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5708, Issue , 2005, Pages 102-111

  Li, Ruxin ^a   Chen, Xiaowei ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Leng, Yuxin ^a   Zhu, Yi ^a   Ge, Xiaochun ^a   Lu, Haihe ^a   Lin, Lihuang ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse; Femtosecond laser pulse; Multiphoton ionization; Nonlinear propagation; Normally dispersive medium; Pulse splitting; Self phase modulation; Self compression; Self focusing; Spectrum reshape

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; IONIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SELF PHASE MODULATION;

CHIRPED PULSE; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NORMALLY DISPERSIVE MEDIUM; PULSE-SPLITTING; SELF-COMPRESSION; SELF-FOCUSING; SPECTRUM RESHAPE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 21844442811     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.606949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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