Strategies for achieving intense single-cycle pulses with in-line post-compression setups

Intense few- and single-cycle pulses are powerful tools in different fields of science Today, third- and higher-order terms in the remnant spectral phase of the pulses remain a major obstacle for obtaining high-quality few- and single-cycle pulses from in-line post-compression setups. In this Letter...

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Autores: Silva, Francisco, Alonso Fernández, Benjamín, Holgado Lage, Warein, Romero, Rosa, San Román Álvarez de Lara, Julio, Conejero Jarque, Enrique, Koop, Hans, Pervak, Vladimir, Crespo, Helder, Sola Larrañaga, Iñigo Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/147093
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Light matter interactions
Phase compensation
Phase matching
Pulse shaping
Reconstruction algorithms
Ti:sapphire lasers
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Sumario:Intense few- and single-cycle pulses are powerful tools in different fields of science Today, third- and higher-order terms in the remnant spectral phase of the pulses remain a major obstacle for obtaining high-quality few- and single-cycle pulses from in-line post-compression setups. In this Letter, we show how input pulse shaping can successfully be applied to standard post-compression setups to minimize the occurrence of high-order phase components during nonlinear propagation and to directly obtain pulses with durations down to 3 fs. Furthermore, by combining this pulse shaping of the input pulse with new-generation broadband chirped mirrors and material addition for remnant third-order phase correction, pulses down to 2.2 fs duration have been measured.