Table 1 Summary of the presented pulse compression experiments.

From: Efficient High-Power Ultrashort Pulse Compression in Self-Defocusing Bulk Media

 

Fourier transform limit

added GDDa

measured pulse duration

peak power

1st stage b

82 fs

4000 fs2

97 fs

27 MW

2nd stage

50 fs

360 fs2

50 fs

45 MW

3rd stage

25 fs

0 fs2

30 fs

60 MW

  1. aAn additional GDD of ≈80 fs2 is added by the collimation lens after each stage.
  2. bFor comparison, the simulation of the 1st stage yielding the spectrally resolved profile shown in Fig. 3(c) resulted in a 74 fs Fourier transform limit.
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