Guiding of Laser Pulses at the Theoretical Limit – 97% Throughput Hollow-Core Fibers

• DOI: 10.1364/up.2020.th4a.6
• Publication Date: 2021-02-10T07:23:02Z
• Authors: Young-Gyun Jeong; Riccardo Piccoli; Andrea Rovere; Luca Zanotto; Gabriel Tempea; Derrek Wilson; Maksym Ivanov; Alicia Ramirez; Roberto Morandotti; François Légaré; Luca Razzari; Bruno E. Schmidt
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences

We describe a compact, 1-m-long, hollow-core fiber (HCF) with 97.4% transmission. 1mJ, 170fs pulses are compressed to 25fs 92% total efficiency, energy stability of 0.6% RMS and an M 2 parameter about 1.05.