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- Title
Comparison of the filamentation and the hollow-core fiber characteristics for pulse compression into the few-cycle regime.
- Authors
Gallmann, L.; Pfeifer, T.; Nagel, P.M.; Abel, M.J.; Neumark, D.M.; Leone, S.R.
- Abstract
The gas-filled hollow-core fiber compression and the optical filamentation technique are compared experimentally in a parameter regime suitable for intense few-cycle pulse generation. In particular, pointing stability, spectral properties, and spatial chirp are investigated. It is found that in the case of filamentation, the critical parameter for pointing stability is gas pressure inside the generation cell whereas for the hollow-core fiber it is alignment that plays this role. The hollow-core fiber technique yields spectra that are better suited for chirped-mirror pulse compression whereas filamentation offers higher throughput and prospects for easy-to-implement self-compression. We present spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) measurements that directly show the transition in the spectral phase of the output continua into the self-compression regime as the gas pressure is increased.
- Subjects
OPTICAL fibers; LASER beams; ELECTRIC fields; FIBER optics; INTERFEROMETRY
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2007, Vol 86, Issue 4, p561
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-006-2503-8