Efficient 4-fold self-compression of 1.5-mJ infrared pulses to 19.8 fs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7501, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mucke O D ^a   Alisauskas S ^a,b   Verhoef, A J ^a   Pugzlys A ^a   Smilgevicius V ^b   Pocius, J ^b,c   Giniunas, L ^c   Danielius, R ^c   Baltuska A ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Light Conversion Ltd   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Filamentation; Intense few cycle infrared pulses; Optical parametric amplification; Pulse self compression

Indexed keywords

FEW-CYCLE; FILAMENTATION; INFRARED PULSE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PULSE SELF-COMPRESSION;

ARGON; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 77951783279     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.852250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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