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Nonlinear spectral cleaning of few-cycle pulses via cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation

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The characterization of a temporal filter based on cross-polarized wave generation working in the few-optical-cycle regime is presented. We show that this device dramatically improves the spectral quality of the ultrashort seed pulses, opening the way to the production of sub-10 fs pulses with high incoherent and coherent contrast. The dispersion compensation conditions for an optimized behavior of the process are experimentally and theoretically discussed.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91761, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    A. Jullien, A. Trisorio, L. Canova, J.-P. Rousseau, B. Mercier, L. Antonucci, G. Chériaux, O. Albert & R. Lopez-Martens

  2. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, USA

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Jullien, A., Durfee, C.G., Trisorio, A. et al. Nonlinear spectral cleaning of few-cycle pulses via cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation. Appl. Phys. B 96, 293–299 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3503-2

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