Compression of ultrashort UV pulses in a self-defocusing gas

Details Compression of ultrashort UV pulses in a self-defocusing gas Compression of ultrashort UV pulses in a self-defocusing gas

2009-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/0910.0944v1

Phys. Rev. A 81, 011805(R) (2010)

Physics

Optics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.81.011805

Compression of UV femtosecond laser pulses focused into a gas cell filled with xenon is reported numerically. With a large negative Kerr index and normal dispersion, xenon promotes temporal modulational instability (MI) which can be monitored to shorten ~ 100 fs pulses to robust, singly-peaked waveforms exhibiting a fourfold compression factor. Combining standard MI theory with a variational approach allows us to predict the beam parameters suitable for efficient compression. At powers < 30 MW, nonlinear dispersion is shown to shift the pulse temporal profile to the rear zone.

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