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Self-compression of ultra-short laser pulses down to one optical cycle by filamentation

Arnaud Couairon 1 Jens Biegert 2 Christoph Hauri 2 W. Kornelis 2 F. Helbing 2 Ursulla Keller 2 André Mysyrowicz 3
1 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]
2 IQE - Institute of Quantum Electronics [ETH Zürich]
3 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
Abstract : Theoretical studies of filamentation of ultra-short near-IR laser pulses propagating in a noble gas predict near single-cycle pulses with the intensity being clamped to the field ionization threshold. Experimental results show that this method is carrier envelope offset phase preserving and provides a very simple source for generating few-cycle intense laser pulses. This suggests a very simple design for the generation of ultra-short, sub-femtosecond XUV optical pulses.
Keywords : nonlinear optics filamentation
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Arnaud Couairon, Jens Biegert, Christoph Hauri, W. Kornelis, F. Helbing, et al.. Self-compression of ultra-short laser pulses down to one optical cycle by filamentation. Journal of Modern Optics, Taylor & Francis, 2006, 53 (1), pp.75-85. ⟨10.1080/09500340500227760⟩. ⟨hal-00463608⟩

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