The 35-fs-long pulses of a commercial Ti:sapphire amplifier are compressed to ∼20fs via self-phase modulation in bulk glass substrates. The cascading of both nonlinear broadening and dispersion compensation stages makes… Click to show full abstract
The 35-fs-long pulses of a commercial Ti:sapphire amplifier are compressed to ∼20fs via self-phase modulation in bulk glass substrates. The cascading of both nonlinear broadening and dispersion compensation stages makes use of the increasing peak power in the successive nonlinear stages. As an application example, the compressed pulses are used for electro-optical sampling of terahertz waves created by optically pumped thin-film spin emitters.
               
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