Temporal contrast enhancement of energetic laser pulses by filtered self-phase-modulation-broadened spectra
Abstract
We present a novel approach for temporal contrast enhancement of energetic laserpulses by filtered SPM broadened spectra. A measured temporal contrast enhancement by at least 7 orders of magnitude in a simple setup has been achieved. This technique is applicable to a wide range of laser parameters and poses a highly efficient alternative to existing contrast-enhancement methods.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.42.003761
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2101.08602
- Bibcode:
- 2017OptL...42.3761B
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- Optics Letters Vol. 42, Issue 19, pp. 3761-3764 (2017)