Homoelle D, Gaeta AL, Yanovsky V, Mourou G. Pulse contrast enhancement of high-energy pulses by use of a gas-filled hollow waveguide.
OPTICS LETTERS 2002;
27:1646-8. [PMID:
18026529 DOI:
10.1364/ol.27.001646]
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Abstract
Using nonlinear ellipse rotation in a gas-filled hollow waveguide, we have increased the pulse contrast of a microjoule femtosecond laser pulse by several orders of magnitude. This scheme offers a number of advantages over competing techniques, including a high degree of tunability that allows for a broad range of input pulse parameters, higher throughput, greater stability, and an output pulse with high spatial quality that is compressible to a quarter of the original temporal width.
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