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
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