Spatially Homogeneous Few-cycle Compression of Yb Lasers Via All-solid-state Free-space Soliton Management

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2022.sm3o.7
• Publication Date: 2022-08-08T19:58:46Z
• Authors: B. Zhu; Z. Fu; Y. Chen; S. Peng; C. Jin; G. Fan; S. Zhang; S. Wang; H. Ru; C. Tian; Y. Wang; H. Kapteyn; M. Murnane; Z. Tao
• Keywords: Pulse compression; Ytterbium

A predictive method for all-solid-state high-quality pulse compression is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The 170 fs pulses from a Yb:KGW laser compressed to ~9.2 with highly spatially homogeneous mode high efficiency of >50%.