Abstract
A new concept - chirped-pulse cascade-compression - is proposed and demonstrated. Initial experiments agree with numerical simulations, including compression of 35fs, 1.2mJ-pulses to 20fs. Scaling to higher pulse energies and compression ratios will be possible.
© 2005 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
J. A. Moses, F. W. Wise, J. Nees, B. Hou, K.-H. Hong, and G. Mourou
WC1 Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NP) 2005
K. Beckwitt, J. A. Moses, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. Nees, E. Power, K. H. Hong, B. Hou, and G. Mourou
MD1 Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NP) 2004
Morten Bache, Jeffrey Moses, Ole Bang, and Frank W. Wise
CF6_4 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2007