Soliton self-compression and spectral broadening of 1 μm femtosecond pulses in single-domain KTiOPO4

Anne Lise Viotti; Björn Hessmo; Sara Mikaelsson; Chen Guo; Cord Arnold; Anne Lahuillier; Balys Momgaudis; Andrius Melnikaitis; Fredrik Laurell; Valdas Pasiskevicius

doi:10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872490

Soliton self-compression and spectral broadening of 1 μm femtosecond pulses in single-domain KTiOPO₄

Anne Lise Viotti, Björn Hessmo, Sara Mikaelsson, Chen Guo, Cord Arnold, Anne Lahuillier, Balys Momgaudis, Andrius Melnikaitis, Fredrik Laurell, Valdas Pasiskevicius

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Abstract

Efficient, diode-pumped high energy femtosecond laser systems around 1 μm based on Yb-gain media are readily commercially available. However, owing to the gain bandwidth limitations, the pulses generated in such lasers are substantially longer than the ones generated in Ti:Sapphire systems. A simple, energy-scalable pulse self-compression scheme for the pulses around 1 μm thus would be of great interest for many applications, including time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy, high-harmonics generation, etc. The self-phase modulation during nonlinear propagation in filaments in gasses is often employed for pulse self-compression [1,2]. Such schemes typically require rather bulky setups and careful control of group velocity dispersion. Some years ago it has been shown theoretically that Raman-active molecules in gaseous form could be used for mid-infrared pulse compression [3].

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019
Publisher	IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728104690
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872490
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019 - Munich, Germany Duration: 2019 Jun 23 → 2019 Jun 27

Conference

Conference	2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	2019/06/23 → 2019/06/27

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Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

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10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872490

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Viotti, A. L., Hessmo, B., Mikaelsson, S., Guo, C., Arnold, C., Lahuillier, A., Momgaudis, B., Melnikaitis, A., Laurell, F., & Pasiskevicius, V. (2019). Soliton self-compression and spectral broadening of 1 μm femtosecond pulses in single-domain KTiOPO₄. In 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019 Article 8872490 IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872490

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Soliton self-compression and spectral broadening of 1 μm femtosecond pulses in single-domain KTiOPO₄. / Viotti, Anne Lise; Hessmo, Björn; Mikaelsson, Sara et al.
2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8872490.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Paper in conference proceeding › peer-review

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