Efficient self-compression of ultrashort UV pulses in air-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
arXiv:2102.11205 · doi:10.1364/OE.422815
Abstract
We report generation of ultrashort UV pulses by soliton self-compression in kagomé-style hollow-core photonic crystal fiber filled with ambient air. Pump pulses with energy 2.6 uJ and duration 54 fs at 400 nm were compressed temporally by a factor of 5, to a duration of ~11 fs. The experimental results are supported by numerical simulations, showing that both Raman and Kerr effects play a role in the compression dynamics. The convenience of using ambient air, and the absence of glass windows that would distort the compressed pulses, makes the setup highly attractive as the basis of an efficient table-top UV pulse compressor.
arXiv comment7 pages, 5 figures
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