Title :
Pulse compression of a high-order harmonic by compensating the atomic dipole phase
Author :
Sekikawa, T. ; Ohno, T. ; Yamazaki, T. ; Nabekawa, Y. ; Watanabe, Shigetaka
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Solid State Phys., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
High-order harmonic pulses of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser were compressed to the pulse width of 13 fs, for the first time, by compensating the intrinsic negative chirp of a harmonic with positive dispersive medium.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; compensation; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse compression; solid lasers; titanium; 13 fs; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; FT limit; atomic dipole phase compensation; femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser; fourth-order autocorrelation; high-order harmonic pulses; intrinsic negative chirp; positive dispersive medium; pulse compression; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-595-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.834608
