• DocumentCode
    1662288
  • Title

    8-fs High-contrast vortex pulses

  • Author

    Bock, Martin ; Jahns, Jürgen ; Grunwald, Ruediger

  • Author_Institution
    Max Born Inst. Nonlinear Opt. & Short-Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    8-fs High-contrast vortex beams were shaped from 6.5-fs pulses with a compact diffractive structure. These are the shortest twisted optical fields reported so far. The pulse transfer indicates a self-compensation of dispersion and diffraction.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; light diffraction; optical dispersion; optical pulse shaping; optical vortices; compact diffractive structure; high-contrast vortex beam shaping; high-contrast vortex pulses; optical diffraction; optical dispersion; pulse transfer; self-compensation; time 6.5 fs; time 8 fs; twisted optical fields; Dispersion; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical vortices; Optimized production technology; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325977