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Efficient hollow fiber compression scheme for generating multi-mJ, carrier-envelope phase stable, sub-5 fs pulses

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We show that a standard hollow-core fiber (HCF) compressor device can be used to efficiently compress multi-mJ energy laser pulses down to few-cycle duration, when seeded with linearly chirped, circularly polarized pulses. With this approach, we routinely generate carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-locked, 1.6 mJ, 4.8 fs pulses using only 3 mJ, 25 fs pulses as the seed.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA-ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91761, Palaiseau Cédex, France

    X. Chen, A. Malvache, A. Ricci, A. Jullien & R. Lopez-Martens

  2. Institut de la Lumière Extrême, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, Institut d’Optique, UniversitéParis-Sud, Palaiseau, France

    X. Chen

  3. Laser Solutions Unit, Thales Optronique SA, Elancourt, France

    A. Ricci

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Chen, X., Malvache, A., Ricci, A. et al. Efficient hollow fiber compression scheme for generating multi-mJ, carrier-envelope phase stable, sub-5 fs pulses. Laser Phys. 21, 198–201 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X11010063

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