Pulse contrast enhancement of high-energy pulses by use of a gas-filled hollow waveguide

被引：100

作者：

Homoelle, D ^{[1
]}

Gaeta, AL

Yanovsky, V

Mourou, G

机构：

[1] Cornell Univ, Sch Appl & Engn Phys, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[2] Univ Michigan, Ctr Ultrafast Opt Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2002年 / 27卷 / 18期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.27.001646

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Using nonlinear ellipse rotation in a gas-filled hollow waveguide, we have increased the pulse contrast of a microjoule femtosecond laser pulse by several orders of magnitude. This scheme offers a number of advantages over competing techniques, including a high degree of tunability that allows for a broad range of input pulse parameters, higher throughput, greater stability, and an output pulse with high spatial quality that is compressible to a quarter of the original temporal width. (C) 2002 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：1646 / 1648

页数：3

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