Pulse compression to subcycle field waveforms with split-dispersion cascaded hollow fibers

Opt Lett. 2013 Nov 1;38(21):4354-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.004354.

Abstract

Carefully dispersion- and nonlinearity-managed cascades of gas-filled hollow-core fibers enable, as our theoretical analysis shows, efficient pulse compression with ultrahigh compression ratios. With dispersion and nonlinearity of individual fibers in such cascades optimized toward distinctly different goal functions, millijoule picosecond laser pulses can be compressed to sub-100-GW subcycle field waveforms.