Extracavity compression technique for high-energy femtosecond pulses

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作者
Mével, E [1 ]
Tcherbakoff, O [1 ]
Salin, E [1 ]
Constant, E [1 ]
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[1] Univ Bordeaux 1, Ctr Lasers Intenses & Applicat, F-33405 Talence, France
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10.1364/JOSAB.20.000105
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We introduce a new extracavity pulse-compression technique suitable for generating high-energy femtosecond pulses. This technique is based on spectral broadening by self-phase modulation in bulk media followed by far-field spatial filtering, which provides a uniform spectral broadening over the spatial profile combined with a transmission of 50%. In principle, this technique allows compression of pulses with energy up to similar to100 mJ by a factor of 3-5. In a proof-of-principle experiment, we compressed a 42-fs, 480-muJ pulse to a 14-fs, 220-muJ pulse. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.
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