5.1 fs pulses by filamentation — future prospective of self-compression to one optical cycle

Arnaud Couairon (1) , André Mysyrowicz (2) , Jens Biegert (3) , U. Keller (3)

1 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]
2 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
3 D-PHYS - Department of Physics [ETH Zürich]

Intense 5.1-fs pulses with a spectral range covering more than 600 THz were generated through filamentation in argon. Numerical simulations show that filamentation in a pressure gradient leads to a self-compression of the input pulses down to one optical cycle.

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

Arnaud Couairon, André Mysyrowicz, Jens Biegert, U. Keller. 5.1 fs pulses by filamentation — future prospective of self-compression to one optical cycle. Ultrafast Phenomena XV, 2007, 88, pp.74-76. ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-68781-8_24⟩. ⟨hal-00559041⟩