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Special issue 'Extreme light fields and their interaction with matter'

Compression after compressor: threefold shortening of 200-TW laser pulses

V. N. Ginzburg, I. V. Yakovlev, A. S. Zuev, A. P. Korobeynikova, A. A. Kochetkov, A. A. Kuzmin, S. Yu. Mironov, A. A. Shaikin, I. A. Shaikin, E. A. Khazanov

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

Abstract: Compression of a 12-J laser pulse from 63 to 21 fs is experimentally demonstrated for a beam 18 cm in diameter. The compression is implemented for a pulse freely propagating in glass under conditions of self-phase modulation and subsequent compensation for dispersion under reflection from dispersion mirrors. This simple and inexpensive technique for increasing multiply the pulse power is characterised by almost 100% energy efficiency and can be used at the output of any ultra-high-power laser, without any changes in its optical scheme.

Keywords: self-phase modulation, compression of femtosecond pulses, multiterawatt laser system.

Received: 11.03.2019

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2019, 49:4, 299–301

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