Few-cycle optical probe-pulse for investigation of relativistic laser-plasma interactions

被引：31
作者：
Schwab, M. B. [1 ]
Saevert, A. [1 ]
Jaeckel, O. [1 ,2 ]
Polz, J. [1 ]
Schnell, M. [1 ]
Rinck, T. [1 ]
Veisz, L. [3 ]
Moeller, M. [1 ]
Hansinger, P. [1 ]
Paulus, G. G. [1 ,2 ]
Kaluza, M. C. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Inst Opt & Quantenelekt, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[2] Helmholtz Inst Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany
来源：
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2013年 / 103卷 / 19期
关键词：
GENERATION; COMPRESSION; BEAMS; FS;
D O I：
10.1063/1.4829489
中图分类号：
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号：
摘要：
The development of a few-cycle optical probe-pulse for the investigation of laser-plasma interactions driven by a Ti:sapphire, 30 Terawatt (TW) laser system is described. The probe is seeded by a fraction of the driving laser's energy and is spectrally broadened via self-phase modulation in a hollow core fiber filled with a rare gas, then temporally compressed to a few optical cycles via chirped mirrors. Shadowgrams of the laser-driven plasma wave created in relativistic electron acceleration experiments are presented with few-fs temporal resolution, which is shown to be independent of post-interaction spectral filtering of the probe-beam. (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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