EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2019)
33-fold pulse compression down to 1.5 cycles in a 6m long hollo-core fiber
Abstract
We demonstrate 33-fold pulse compression employing a 6-m-long hollow-core fiber and chirped mirrors. 1 mJ, 170 fs pulses at 1030 nm are compressed to 5.1 fs (1.5 optical cycles) with 70% efficiency.