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Cord Arnold

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Compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses through an argon-filled tapered planar waveguide

Author

  • Shihua Chen
  • Amelie Jarnac
  • Aurelien Houard
  • Yi Liu
  • Cord Arnold
  • Bing Zhou
  • Benjamin Forestier
  • Bernard Prade
  • Andre Mysyrowicz

Summary, in English

We propose a hollow tapered planar waveguide for compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses. Direct measurements suggest that it seems to find a very good trade-off among the energy throughput, the beam focusability, and the pulse compressibility. With a Ti:sapphire laser pulse of 12.0 mJ and 40 fs, our experiment produces an output pulse of 9: 4 fs duration with energy 9: 1 mJ (transverse magnetic mode) or 10: 0 mJ (transverse electric mode) in argon, each exhibiting a nice spatial mode. To evaluate such a tapered waveguide, the linear wave propagation theory and the solution to its complex propagation constant are also presented. c 2011 Optical Society of America

Department/s

  • Atomic Physics

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

1009-1012

Publication/Series

Optical Society of America. Journal B: Optical Physics

Volume

28

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Topic

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0740-3224