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90 GW peak power few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier
Giedrius Andriukaitis,T. Balčiūnas,Skirmantas Alisauskas,Audrius Pugžlys,Andrius Baltuška,Tenio Popmintchev,Ming-Chang Chen,Margaret M. Murnane,Henry C. Kapteyn +8 more
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A compact 20 Hz repetition-rate mid-IR OPCPA system operating at a central wavelength of 3900 nm with the tail-to-tail spectrum extending over 600 nm and delivering 8 mJ pulses that are compressed to 83 fs opens a range of unprecedented opportunities for tabletop ultrafast science.Abstract:
We demonstrate a compact 20 Hz repetition-rate mid-IR OPCPA system operating at a central wavelength of 3900 nm with the tail-to-tail spectrum extending over 600 nm and delivering 8 mJ pulses that are compressed to 83 fs (<7 optical cycles). Because of the long optical period (∼13 fs) and a high peak power, the system opens a range of unprecedented opportunities for tabletop ultrafast science and is particularly attractive as a driver for a highly efficient generation of ultrafast coherent x-ray continua for biomolecular and element specific imaging.read more
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Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics in the Mid-Infrared
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Ultrafast quantum dynamics driven by the strong space charge field of a relativistic electron beam
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Role of CO 2 in filamentation of 3.9-μm Mid IR pulses in ambient air
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TL;DR: In this article, the main loss mechanism during filamentation of loosely focused 3.9-μm pulses in ambient air, dynamic absorption by CO2 was identified, and an increase of CO2 concentration to ∼5% level (by exhaling air into 2m long openended tube) led to complete disappearance of losses.
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Fiber-optic soliton self-compression to subcycle pulse widths in the mid-infrared
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate physical scenarios whereby ultrashort mid-infrared pulses even with very low pulse energies can be compressed to sub-cycle pulse widths using nonlinear-optical field transformations in chalcogenide photonic-crystal fibers.
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