Generation of 38-fs pulses from adaptive compression of a cascaded hollow fiber supercontinuum
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- 15 October 2003
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 28 (20) , 1987-1989
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.28.001987
Abstract
We demonstrate generation of 3.8-fs pulses with energies of up to from a supercontinuum produced in two cascaded hollow fibers. Ultrabroadband dispersion compensation was achieved through a closed-loop combination of a spatial light modulator for adaptive pulse compression and spectral-phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) measurements as feedback signal.
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