Abstract
We demonstrate pulse shortening of 1-ps Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier to 500 fs by cross-polarized wave generation (XPW) in a 6 mm BaF2 crystal. The process is self-compressed and has 8.5% conversion efficiency corresponding to 18 mu J energy. Our theoretical and experimental investigation shows that the factor of root 3 spectral broadening and pulse shortening in ps-XPW-generation only happens in unsaturated regime. We demonstrate that the initial spectral chirp affects the spectral broadening and pulse shortening of XPW pulses. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Physics |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 47892 |
| Date Deposited: | 27. Apr 2018 08:14 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020 13:25 |
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