Dispersion control over 150 THz with chirped dielectric mirrors

Author

Tempea, Gabriel ; Krausz, Ferenc ; Spielmann, Christian ; Ferencz, Kárpát

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Wien, Austria

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

1998

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

196

Abstract

Ultrabroad-band chirped multilayer dielectric mirrors providing nearly constant negative group delay dispersion over the wavelength range of 640-950 nm and high reflectance between 590 and 970 nm are demonstrated. A key to this performance has been an improved design method, which also substantially reduces the computing time needed for ultimate optimization. The presented devices constitute an enabling technology for producing high-quality terawatt pulses in the sub-10-fs regime. The generation of 5-fs 0.1-TW pulses by using exclusively these mirrors as negative delay line demonstrates this potential

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser mirrors; optical delay lines; optical design techniques; optical dispersion; optical films; optical modulation; optical pulse compression; reflectivity; 0.1 TW; 10 fs; 5 fs; 590 to 970 nm; 640 nm; 640 to 950 nm; TW pulse generation; chirped dielectric mirrors; computing time; constant negative group delay dispersion; dispersion control; enabling technology; high reflectance; high-quality terawatt pulses; improved design method; negative delay line; sub-fs regime; ultimate optimization; ultrabroad-band chirped multilayer dielectric mirrors; wavelength range; Chirp; Delay lines; Design methodology; Design optimization; Dielectrics; Mirrors; Nonhomogeneous media; Propagation delay; Pulse generation; Reflectivity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2944.686723

Filename

686723