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- Title
The generation of intense, transform-limited laser pulses with tunable duration from 6 to 30 fs in a differentially pumped hollow fibre.
- Authors
Robinson, J. S.; Haworth, C. A.; Teng, H.; Smith, R. A.; Marangos, J. P.; Tisch, J. W. G.
- Abstract
We have investigated experimentally the energy transmission and spectral broadening of 30-fs, 700-μJ laser pulses in a neon-filled, 250-μm inner diameter hollow fibre. We implement a differentially pumped fibre, where a vacuum is maintained at the fibre entrance, and compare this to a statically filled fibre. We obtain significantly higher transmission and increased spectral broadening in the differentially pumped case due to a reduction of ionisation defocusing at the fibre entrance. This arrangement provides a method for the generation of near-transform- limited pulses with smoothly varying pulse duration whilst maintaining constant pulse energy, by simple adjustment of the gas pressure. Compression of ∼450-μJ pulses from the differentially pumped fibre to a duration of 6.5 fs has been achieved for pulses with spectra spanning 650–900 nm, by use of negatively dispersive chirped mirrors.
- Subjects
PULSE generators; FIBRE Channel (Standard); SPECTRUM analysis; PRESSURE; ELECTRIC lines; LASERS
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2006, Vol 85, Issue 4, p525
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-006-2390-z