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Efficient shortening of self-chirped picosecond pulses in a high-power CO2 amplifier

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We report a factor-of-6 shortening of the 240-ps (FWHM) pulses in a triple-pass, 2.5-atm CO2 amplifier. This technique is based on the self-phase modulation of a 10μm pulse in a plasma after the first pass of amplification, followed by narrowing of this chirped pulse during further amplification. Subsequently, strong power broadening provides the necessary bandwidth to amplify 40-ps pulses to terawatt power levels.

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