Abstract
Although femtosecond pulse compression techniques using optical fiber have been successful in generating optical pulses as short as 6 fs1, fiber damage thresholds typically limit the amount of energy that can effectively be compressed to less than 10 nj. Recent efforts2 have succeeded in compressing amplified femtosecond pulses while maintaining energies in the μJ regime; however, these efforts have been limited in their scope by either low repetition rate amplifiers or lack of wavelength selectivity. We present a new method of pulse compression, which produces 19 fs, 0.6 μJ optical pulses at a repetition rate of 8.6 KHz. Unlike alternative high energy compression methods, soliton compression offers both high repetition rates and a potentially unlimited wavelength range.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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