Double-Pass Multiple-Plate Continuum for High-Temporal-Contrast Nonlinear Pulse Compression

Bo Han Chen; Jia Xuan Su; Jhan Yu Guo; Kai Chen; Shi Wei Chu; Hsuan Hao Lu; Chih Hsuan Lu; Shang Da Yang

doi:10.3389/fphot.2022.937622

Double-Pass Multiple-Plate Continuum for High-Temporal-Contrast Nonlinear Pulse Compression

Bo Han Chen, Jia Xuan Su, Jhan Yu Guo, Kai Chen, Shi Wei Chu, Hsuan Hao Lu, Chih Hsuan Lu, Shang Da Yang

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Abstract

We propose a new architecture, double-pass multiple-plate continuum (DPMPC), for nonlinear pulse compression. In addition to having a smaller footprint, a double-pass configuration is designed to achieve substantial bandwidth broadening without incurring noticeable higher-order dispersion, thus improving the temporal contrast over those of the traditional single-pass geometry when only the quadratic spectral phase can be compensated. In our proof-of-concept experiment, 187 μJ, 190-fs Yb-based laser pulse is compressed to 20 fs with high throughput (75%), high Strehl ratio (0.76), and excellent beam homogeneity by using DPMPC. The subsequently generated octave-spanning spectrum exhibits a significantly raised blue tail compared with that driven by pulses from a single-pass counterpart.

Original language	English
Article number	937622
Journal	Frontiers in Photonics
Volume	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fphot.2022.937622
State	Published - 2022

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Funding was provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 109-2112-M-007-013, MOST 109-2811-M-007-517, MOST 110-2811-M-007-508, and MOST 110-2321-B-002-012) and the BRC Research Center funding (110-2634-F-007-025).

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nonlinear optics
pulse compression
spectral broadening
supercontinuum generation
ultrafast science

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