Sub 25 fs pulses from solid-core nonlinear compression stage at 250 W of average power

被引：67

作者：

Jocher, Christoph ^{[1
]}

Eidam, Tino ^{[1
,2
]}

Haedrich, Steffen ^{[1
,2
]}

Limpert, Jens ^{[1
,2
]}

Tuennermann, Andreas ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Jena, Inst Appl Phys, Abbe Ctr Photon, D-07745 Jena, Germany

[2] Helmholtz Inst Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany

[3] Fraunhofer Inst Appl Opt & Precis Engn, D-07745 Jena, Germany

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2012年 / 37卷 / 21期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

HIGH-REPETITION-RATE; EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET; GENERATION; HARMONICS; FIBERS; ENERGY;

D O I：

10.1364/OL.37.004407

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report on a highpower femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplification system with an excellent beam quality (M-2 = 1.2) operating at 250 MHz repetition rate. We demonstrate nonlinear compression in a solid-core photonic crystal fiber at unprecedented average power levels. By exploiting self-phase modulation with subsequent chirpedmirror compression we achieve pulse shortening by more than one order of magnitude to 23 fs pulses. The use of circular polarization allows higher than usual peak powers in the broadening fiber resulting in compressed 0.9 mu J pulse energy and a peak power of 34 MW at 250 W of average power (M-2 = 1.3). This system is well suited for driving cavity-enhanced high-repetition rate high-harmonic generation. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：4407 / 4409

页数：3

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