Title : 
Simultaneous spectral and temporal compression of femtosecond pulses in normally dispersive media
         
        
            Author : 
Liu, Jun ; Chen, Xiaowei ; Zhu, Yi ; Leng, Yuxin ; Li, Ruxin ; Xu, Zhizhan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Shanghai Inst. of Opt. & Fine Mech., Chinese Acad. of Sci., China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Spectral narrowing and pulse self-compression of high-intensity femtosecond pulses are experimentally studied in normally dispersive media. Shorter than Gaussian or sech2 transform-limited self-compression femtosecond pulses are obtained. Spectral red-shift is observed in the experiment.
         
        
            Keywords : 
dispersive media; laser beams; optical pulse compression; spectral line narrowing; spectral line shift; dispersive media; pulse self-compression; simultaneous spectral femtosecond pulse compression; spectral narrowing; spectral red-shift; temporal femtosecond pulse compression; transform-limited self-compression femtosecond pulses; Bandwidth; Chirp; Dispersion; Glass; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-796-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/QELS.2005.1549301