A strong-field driver in the single-cycle regime based on self-compression in a kagome fibre

T. Balciunas (), C. Fourcade-Dutin, G. Fan, T. Witting, A. A. Voronin, A. M. Zheltikov, F. Gerome, G. G. Paulus, A. Baltuska and F. Benabid
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T. Balciunas: Institute of Photonics, Vienna University of Technology
C. Fourcade-Dutin: GPPMM Group, XLIM Research Institute, CNRS UMR 7252, University of Limoges
G. Fan: Institute of Photonics, Vienna University of Technology
T. Witting: Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College
A. A. Voronin: International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'evy Gory
A. M. Zheltikov: International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'evy Gory
F. Gerome: GPPMM Group, XLIM Research Institute, CNRS UMR 7252, University of Limoges
G. G. Paulus: Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743
A. Baltuska: Institute of Photonics, Vienna University of Technology
F. Benabid: GPPMM Group, XLIM Research Institute, CNRS UMR 7252, University of Limoges

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Over the past decade intense laser fields with a single-cycle duration and even shorter, subcycle multicolour field transients have been generated and applied to drive attosecond phenomena in strong-field physics. Because of their extensive bandwidth, single-cycle fields cannot be emitted or amplified by laser sources directly and, as a rule, are produced by external pulse compression—a combination of nonlinear optical spectral broadening followed up by dispersion compensation. Here we demonstrate a simple robust driver for high-field applications based on this Kagome fibre approach that ensures pulse self-compression down to the ultimate single-cycle limit and provides phase-controlled pulses with up to a 100 μJ energy level, depending on the filling gas, pressure and the waveguide length.

Date: 2015
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