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

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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
    Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo)

  • A. M. Zheltikov

    (International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'evy Gory
    Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo
    Texas A&M University
    Kurchatov Institute National Research Center, ploshchad' Akademika Kurchatova 1)

  • 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)

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.

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  • T. Balciunas & C. Fourcade-Dutin & G. Fan & T. Witting & A. A. Voronin & A. M. Zheltikov & F. Gerome & G. G. Paulus & A. Baltuska & F. Benabid, 2015. "A strong-field driver in the single-cycle regime based on self-compression in a kagome fibre," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-7, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms7117
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7117
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