Nonlinear temporal cleaning of ultrashort laser pulses in multipass cells
Jaismeen KaurLouis DaniaultZhao ChengOscar TourneurO. TcherbakoffF. RéauJean-François HergottRodrigo López-Martens
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We explore the possibility of integrating third-order nonlinear optical filtering techniques in a multipass cell architecture in order to achieve simultaneous temporal compression and cleaning of ultrashort laser pulses.DOI: 10.1049/ic:20070413 ISBN: 978-3-8007-3042-1 Location: Berlin, Germany Conference date: 16-20 Sept. 2007 Format: PDF We present a pulse splitting mechanism by third-order dispersion in the normal dispersion regime, which leads to the excitation of new frequency components on the red side of the pulse spectrum. (2 pages) Inspec keywords: optical dispersion; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical pulse shaping Subjects: Nonlinear optics and devices; Ultrafast optical techniques; Nonlinear optics
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