• DocumentCode
    2535255
  • Title

    Energy up-scalable ultrashort pulse compression using planar hollow waveguides

  • Author

    Akturk, Selcuk ; Arnold, Cord ; Zhou, Bing ; Couairon, Arnaud ; Mysyrowicz, Andre

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Istanbul Tech. Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4-8 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    314
  • Lastpage
    315
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate that high energy femtosecond laser pulses can be compressed using nonlinear propagation in gas-filled planar hollow waveguides. A stability analysis provides guidelines for up-scaling the compressible pulse energy without spatial beam-breakup.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; light propagation; nonlinear optics; optical planar waveguides; optical pulse compression; energy up scalable ultrashort pulse compression; gas filled planar hollow waveguide; high energy femtosecond laser pulse; nonlinear propagation; stability analysis; Gas lasers; Guidelines; Hollow waveguides; Optical propagation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Planar waveguides; Pulse compression methods; Stability analysis; Waveguide lasers; component; nonlinear pulse propagation; pulse compression;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Belek-Antalya
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3680-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343252
  • Filename
    5343252