posted on 2023-01-10, 03:19authored byKilian Fritsch, Victor Hariton, Kevin Schwarz, Nazar Kovalenko, Goncalo Figueira, Oleg Pronin
Since its first demonstration in 2016, the multi-pass spectral broadening technique has covered impressive ranges of pulse energy (3 $\mu$J - 100 mJ) and peak power (4 MW - 100 GW). Energy scaling of this technique into the joule-level is currently limited by phenomena such as optical damage, gas ionization and spatio-spectral beam inhomogeneity. These limitations can be overcome by the novel multi-pass convex-concave arrangement, which exhibits crucial properties such as large mode size and compactness. In a proof-of-principle experiment, 260 fs, 15 $\mu$J and 200 $\mu$J pulses are broadened and subsequently compressed to approximately 50 fs with 90 % efficiency and excellent spatio-spectral homogeneity across the beam profile.
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