Compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses through an argon-filled tapered planar waveguide

Shihua Chen; Amelie Jarnac; Aurélien Houard; Yi Liu; Cord L. Arnold; Bing Zhou; Benjamin Forestier; Bernard Prade; André Mysyrowicz

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.28.001009

Compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses through an argon-filled tapered planar waveguide

Shihua Chen
, Amelie Jarnac
, Aurélien Houard
, Yi Liu
, Cord L. Arnold
, Bing Zhou
, Benjamin Forestier
, Bernard Prade
, André Mysyrowicz

Laboratory d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS-École Polytechnique
Southeast University
Lund University

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Abstract

We propose a hollow tapered planar waveguide for compression of high-energy ultrashort laser pulses. Direct measurements suggest that it seems to find a very good trade-off among the energy throughput, the beam focusability, and the pulse compressibility. With a Ti:sapphire laser pulse of 12:0 mJ and 40 fs, our experiment produces an output pulse of 9:4 fs duration with energy 9:1 mJ (transverse magnetic mode) or 10:0 mJ (transverse electric mode) in argon, each exhibiting a nice spatial mode. To evaluate such a tapered waveguide, the linear wave propagation theory and the solution to its complex propagation constant are also presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1009-1012
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	28
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.28.001009
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011

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