• DocumentCode
    3017839
  • Title

    Spectral Broadening of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using a Hollow Fiber with Symmetric Pressure Gradient

  • Author

    Bohman, S. ; Kaku, M. ; Suda, A. ; Yamaguchi, S. ; Midorikawa, K.

  • Author_Institution
    RIKEN, Saitama
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate a pulse compression technique using a symmetric pressure-gradient hollow fiber. This technique improves the spatial and spectral qualities of multi-mJ femtosecond laser pulses spectrally-broadened by self-phase modulation.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical fibres; optical pulse compression; self-phase modulation; spectral line broadening; femtosecond laser pulses; hollow fiber; pulse compression; self-phase modulation; spectral broadening; symmetric pressure gradient; Fiber lasers; Gas lasers; Laser beams; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453306
  • Filename
    4453306