S. Yu. Mironov, V. N. Ginzburg, I. V. Yakovlev, A. A. Kochetkov, A. A. Shaikin, E. A. Khazanov, G. Mourou, “Using self-phase modulation for temporal compression of intense femtosecond laser pulses”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2017, Volume 47, Number 7,Pages <nobr>614

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Control of laser radiation parameters

Using self-phase modulation for temporal compression of intense femtosecond laser pulses

S. Yu. Mironov^a, V. N. Ginzburg^a, I. V. Yakovlev^a, A. A. Kochetkov^a, A. A. Shaikin^a, E. A. Khazanov^a, G. Mourou^b

^a Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod
^b Ècole Polytechnique, International Center for Zetta-Exawatt Science and Technology, France

Abstract: We report a theoretical analysis of the spectrum broadening of intense chirped femtosecond pulses in media with cubic nonlinearity. Subsequent temporal compression of such pulses using a quadratic spectral phase corrector is investigated. Pulse compression from 57 fs to 22 fs is demonstrated experimentally in a petawatt laser beam.

Keywords: femtosecond laser pulses, temporal compression, self-phase modulation.

Received: 02.05.2017