Extremely short high-energy UV pulses from a high-pressure gas: Understanding the physical limits

Author

Graf, U. ; Serebryannikov, E.E. ; Fiess, M. ; Schultze, M. ; Kienberger, R. ; Krausz, F. ; Zheltikov, ToJ A M ; Goulielmakis, E.

Author_Institution

Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we compare the results of experiments on spectral transformation of ~5-fs, 0.1-0.3-mJ input IR laser pulses into the DUV in a high-pressure gas target with simulations performed by numerically solving a field-evolution equation for a few-cycle pulse undergoing spectral, temporal, and spatial nonlinear-optical transformations in an ionizing gas medium. Gas-phase harmonic-generation techniques can produce few-cycle pulses with a pulse width less than 1 fs in the UV/DUV range.

Keywords

high-pressure techniques; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; energy 0.1 mJ to 0.3 mJ; extremely short high-energy UV pulses; field-evolution equation; gas-phase harmonic-generation techniques; high-pressure gas target; ionizing gas medium; nonlinear-optical transformation; spatial transformation; spectral transformation; temporal transformation; Energy measurement; Frequency; Gas lasers; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Spatiotemporal phenomena;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194753

Filename

5194753