Subexawatt few-cycle lightwave generation via multipetawatt pulse compression

被引：52

作者：

Voronin, Aleksandr A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Zheltikov, Aleksei M. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Ditmire, Todd ^{[4
]}

Rus, Bedrich ^{[5
]}

Korn, Georg ^{[5
,6
]}

机构：

[1] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Ctr Int Laser, Dept Phys, Moscow 119992, Russia

[2] Russian Quantum Ctr, Skolkovo 143025, Moscow Region, Russia

[3] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA

[4] Univ Texas Austin, Texas Ctr High Intens Sci, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[5] Extreme Light Intens Beamlines Facil, Inst Phys, Prague 18040, Czech Republic

[6] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany

来源：

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS | 2013年 / 291卷

基金：

俄罗斯基础研究基金会;

关键词：

Pulse compression; Extreme power lasers; Self-focusing; PETAWATT LASER; TRANSPARENT MEDIA; SUPPRESSION; FIELD;

D O I：

10.1016/j.optcom.2012.10.057

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We identify the physical scenarios of nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics of extreme-power laser fields enabling compression of a broad-beam ultrafast multipetawatt laser output to subexawatt few-cycle light pulses focusable to pulse intensities up to 10(25) W/cm(2). We show that, with a careful control over the key limiting physical effects, which include dispersion, pulse self-steepening, small-scale self-focusing, and ionization effects, enhanced self-phase modulation of multipetawatt laser waveforms in a solid medium can provide spectral bandwidths compressible to few-cycle pulse widths with output beam profiles focusable to ultrarelativistic intensities. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：299 / 303

页数：5

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