Abstract
We demonstrate free-beam spectral self-compression of ~100-GW femtosecond laser pulses due to self-phase modulation (SPM) in a transparent dielectric. While all the earlier studies of SPM-induced spectral narrowing have been performed using optical fibers, experiments and simulations presented in this Letter show that this type of spectral transformation can be implemented as a part of a full three-dimensional field-waveform dynamics and can be extended to peak powers times higher than the critical power of self-focusing. With a properly chosen initial chirp, spectral self-compression is accompanied by pulse compression, providing spectral–temporal mode self-compression as a whole.
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