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In the previous chapter it was discussed that the strong spectral modulations in the seed pulses generated by spectral broadening in cascaded HCFs constitute a serious problem for the parametric amplification and temporal compression of these pulses. In the present chapter we will describe our efforts to overcome this problem and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of three alternative seed generation schemes we developed.
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Notes
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A detailed description of angular chirp and tilted pulse fronts can be found in Sect. 6.3.
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It should be pointed out that the broad bandwidth of the interaction would usually (i.e. for a narrow-band pump) require a non-collinear geometry for phase matching. Because of the broadband pump employed here, however, this requirement is relaxed permitting the described collinear OPA.
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Kessel, A. (2018). Seed Generation Schemes. In: Generation and Parametric Amplification of Few‐Cycle Light Pulses at Relativistic Intensities. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92843-2_4
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