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Temporal contrast enhancement of femtosecond pulses by a self-diffraction process in a bulk Kerr mediumJun Liu, Kotaro Okamura, Yuichiro Kida, and Takayoshi Kobayashi »View Author Affiliations
Jun Liu,1,2,3,*
Kotaro Okamura,1,2
Yuichiro Kida,1,2
and Takayoshi Kobayashi1,2,4,5
1Advanced Ultrafast Laser Research Center, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka 1-5-1, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585 Japan 2International Cooperative Research Project (ICORP), Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan 3State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China 4Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd. Hsinchu 300, Taiwan 5Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Yamadakami 2-6, Suita 565-0871, Ibaraki 567-0047, Japan *Corresponding author: jliu@ils.uec.ac.jp |
Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 21, pp. 22245-22254 (2010)
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Abstract
We demonstrated for the first time the application of a self-diffraction (SD) process in a bulk Kerr medium to improve the temporal, spectral, and spatial qualities of femtosecond laser pulses. A proof-of-principle experiment succeeded in improving the temporal contrast of a femtosecond pulse by four orders of magnitude even in the picosecond region using a 0.5-mm-thick fused silica glass plate by this technique. The energy conversion efficiency from the incident pulses to the two first-order SD signals is about 12%. By the SD process, a laser pulse with smoother spectral shape, higher beam quality, and shorter pulse duration than those of the input pulse was generated. This technique is expected to be used to design background-free petawatt laser system in the future.
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(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(320.5520) Ultrafast optics : Pulse compression
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History
Original Manuscript: August 2, 2010
Revised Manuscript: September 5, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: September 7, 2010
Published: October 6, 2010
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Jun Liu, Kotaro Okamura, Yuichiro Kida, and Takayoshi Kobayashi, "Temporal contrast enhancement of femtosecond pulses by a self-diffraction process in a bulk Kerr medium," Opt. Express 18, 22245-22254 (2010)
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