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
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;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343252
