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Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides

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We demonstrate temporal compression of intense femtosecond 800-nm pulses in a hollow-core fiber filled with low-pressure argon gas, without any subsequent dispersion compensation. We achieve a final compressed pulse width of ∼ 13 fs

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  1. Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO, 80309-0440

    Nick Wagner, Emily A. Gibson, Sterling Backus, Margaret M. Murnane & Henry C. Kapteyn

  2. Department of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Ivan P. Christov

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Takayoshi Kobayashi

  2. Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan

    Tadashi Okada

  3. Engineering Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-Cho 1-3, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Tetsuro Kobayashi

  4. MIT Room 6-235, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Keith A. Nelson

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Sandro De Silvestri

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Wagner, N., Gibson, E.A., Backus, S., Murnane, M.M., Kapteyn, H.C., Christov, I.P. (2005). Temporal Self-Compression of Intense Femtosecond Pulses Propagating in Argon-Filled Hollow Waveguides. In: Kobayashi, T., Okada, T., Kobayashi, T., Nelson, K.A., De Silvestri, S. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27213-5_12

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