Nonlinear spectral cleaning of few-cycle pulses via cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation

Aurélie Jullien (1) , C. G. Durfee (2) , Alexandre Trisorio (1) , L. Canova (1) , Jean-Philippe Rousseau (1) , Brigitte Mercier (1) , Laura Antonucci (1) , Gilles Cheriaux (1) , Olivier Albert (1) , Rodrigo B. Lopez-Martens (1)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 Department of Physics

The characterization of a temporal filter based on cross-polarized wave generation working in the few-optical-cycle regime is presented. We show that this device dramatically improves the spectral quality of the ultrashort seed pulses, opening the way to the production of sub-10 fs pulses with high incoherent and coherent contrast. The dispersion compensation conditions for an optimized behavior of the process are experimentally and theoretically discussed.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Aurélie Jullien, C. G. Durfee, Alexandre Trisorio, L. Canova, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, et al.. Nonlinear spectral cleaning of few-cycle pulses via cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation. Applied Physics B - Laser and Optics, 2009, 96 (2-3), pp.293-299. ⟨10.1007/s00340-009-3503-2⟩. ⟨hal-00528237⟩