Generation of few-cycle laser pulses with high temporal contrast via nonlinear elliptical polarisation rotation in a hollow fibre compressor

N. G. Khodakovskiy; M. P. Kalashnikov; V. Pajer; A. Blumenstein; P. Simon; M. M. Toktamis; M. Lozano; B. Mercier; Z. Cheng; T. Nagy; R. Lopez-Martens

doi:10.1088/1612-202X/ab3852

Generation of few-cycle laser pulses with high temporal contrast via nonlinear elliptical polarisation rotation in a hollow fibre compressor

N. G. Khodakovskiy
, M. P. Kalashnikov
, V. Pajer
, A. Blumenstein
, P. Simon
, M. M. Toktamis
, M. Lozano
, B. Mercier
, Z. Cheng
, T. Nagy
, R. Lopez-Martens

Max-Born-Institute
ELI-Hu Kft.
University of Kassel
Laser-Laboratorium Gottingen E.V.
Laboratory d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS-École Polytechnique

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We report on the simultaneous temporal filtering and compression of 30 fs laser pulses down to 5 fs duration via nonlinear elliptical polarization rotation (NER) in a stretched flexible hollow fibre compressor. Both the achieved 2-cycle pulse duration and the internal conversion efficiency of ∼47% are solely limited by the applied fibre geometry. Our investigations show that precise control of the NER process could help significantly improve the temporal fidelity of high-energy hollow fibre compression schemes.

Original language	English
Article number	095001
Journal	Laser Physics Letters
Volume	16
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1612-202X/ab3852
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2019

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post-compression
temporal contrast
ultrafast lasers

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Khodakovskiy, N. G., Kalashnikov, M. P., Pajer, V., Blumenstein, A., Simon, P., Toktamis, M. M., Lozano, M., Mercier, B., Cheng, Z., Nagy, T., & Lopez-Martens, R. (2019). Generation of few-cycle laser pulses with high temporal contrast via nonlinear elliptical polarisation rotation in a hollow fibre compressor. Laser Physics Letters, 16(9), Article 095001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1612-202X/ab3852

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Generation of few-cycle laser pulses with high temporal contrast via nonlinear elliptical polarisation rotation in a hollow fibre compressor

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