Post-compression of picosecond pulses into the few-cycle regime

2020/03/24 by Balla, Prannay, Wahid, Ammar Bin, Sytcevich, Ivan +18 · 2 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.11070

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate post-compression of 1.2 picosecond laser pulses to 13 fs via gas-based multi-pass spectral broadening. Our results yield a single-stage compression factor of about 40 at 200 W in-burst average power and a total compression factor >90 at reduced power. The employed scheme represents a route towards compact few-cycle sources driven by industrial-grade Yb:YAG lasers at high average power.

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