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| author | Zhou, Cong Wu, Haina Wu, Chaoneng Zhao, Yitong Wang, Chen Liu, Jiayue Qiu, Zige Zhang, Wei Peng, Yapei Shi, Mingyuan Hu, Shuyuan Liu, Xiaoliang Wu, Sizhong Yang, Jie Zhou, Cangtao Li, Lu |
| author_facet | Zhou, Cong Wu, Haina Wu, Chaoneng Zhao, Yitong Wang, Chen Liu, Jiayue Qiu, Zige Zhang, Wei Peng, Yapei Shi, Mingyuan Hu, Shuyuan Liu, Xiaoliang Wu, Sizhong Yang, Jie Zhou, Cangtao Li, Lu |
| contents | We compared the performance of two post-compression techniques, a gas-filled hollow-core fiber (HCF) and a multi-pass cell (MPC), using a high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser. The HCF produced 27 fs pulses from 230 fs inputs at >50% efficiency, whereas the MPC achieved 34 fs pulses with significantly higher efficiency (>88%). Both results aligned well with numerical simulations. Crucially, spatial wavefront analysis revealed that the HCF acts as a modal filter, improving beam quality, whereas the MPC introduces aberrations through cumulative mirror errors. Furthermore, we characterize the photon flux of high harmonic generation driven by the post-compressed pulses from the HCF and MPC. These finding highlights that post-compression technique based on self-phase modulation is efficient for the intensity boosting of femtosecond laser system, providing opportunities for generating high quality extreme ultraviolet (XUV) sources. In addition, further improvement of spatial wavefront quality is suggested using the HCF as a single compressor or output component of the cascade compressor. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Spatial and temporal study of the post-compressed high-power laser pulses for coherent extreme ultraviolet source development Zhou, Cong Wu, Haina Wu, Chaoneng Zhao, Yitong Wang, Chen Liu, Jiayue Qiu, Zige Zhang, Wei Peng, Yapei Shi, Mingyuan Hu, Shuyuan Liu, Xiaoliang Wu, Sizhong Yang, Jie Zhou, Cangtao Li, Lu Optics We compared the performance of two post-compression techniques, a gas-filled hollow-core fiber (HCF) and a multi-pass cell (MPC), using a high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser. The HCF produced 27 fs pulses from 230 fs inputs at >50% efficiency, whereas the MPC achieved 34 fs pulses with significantly higher efficiency (>88%). Both results aligned well with numerical simulations. Crucially, spatial wavefront analysis revealed that the HCF acts as a modal filter, improving beam quality, whereas the MPC introduces aberrations through cumulative mirror errors. Furthermore, we characterize the photon flux of high harmonic generation driven by the post-compressed pulses from the HCF and MPC. These finding highlights that post-compression technique based on self-phase modulation is efficient for the intensity boosting of femtosecond laser system, providing opportunities for generating high quality extreme ultraviolet (XUV) sources. In addition, further improvement of spatial wavefront quality is suggested using the HCF as a single compressor or output component of the cascade compressor. |
| title | Spatial and temporal study of the post-compressed high-power laser pulses for coherent extreme ultraviolet source development |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26472 |