Generation and characterization of frequency tunable sub-15-fs pulses in a gas-filled hollow-core fiber pumped by a Yb:KGW laser

Mohammed Sabbah; Federico Belli; Christian Brahms; Fei Yu; Jonathan Knight; John C. Travers

doi:10.1364/OL.484040

Generation and characterization of frequency tunable sub-15-fs pulses in a gas-filled hollow-core fiber pumped by a Yb:KGW laser

Mohammed Sabbah^*, Federico Belli, Christian Brahms, Fei Yu, Jonathan Knight, John C. Travers

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We investigate soliton self-compression and photoionization effects in an argon-filled antiresonant hollow-core photonic crystal fiber pumped with a commercial Yb:KGW laser. Before the onset of photoionization, we demonstrate self-compression of our 220 fs pump laser to 13 fs in a single and compact stage. By using the plasma driven soliton self-frequency blueshift, we also demonstrate a tunable source from 1030 to ∼700 nm. We fully characterize the compressed pulses using sum-frequency generation time-domain ptychography, experimentally revealing the full time-frequency plasma–soliton dynamics in hollow-core fiber for the first time.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2277-2280
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	48
Issue number	9
Early online date	19 Apr 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.484040
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2023

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Generation and characterization of frequency tunable sub-15-fs pulses in a gas-filled hollow-core fiber pumped by a Yb:KGW laser

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