Title :
Accelerating femtosecond pulses along highly non-paraxial circular trajectories
Author :
Mathis, A. ; Courvoisier, F. ; Froehly, L. ; Furfaro, L. ; Giust, R. ; Jacquot, M. ; Lacourt, P.A. ; Dudley, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Opt. P.M. Duffieux, Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France
Abstract :
We report experimental acceleration of 100 fs pulses along 60° arc circular trajectories, the highest degree of beam acceleration reported to date. We show that temporal pulse shape is preserved along the main intensity lobe.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical pulse shaping; beam acceleration; femtosecond pulse acceleration; main intensity lobe; nonparaxial circular trajectories; temporal pulse shape; Acceleration; Laser beams; Particle beams; Structural beams; Trajectory; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
