Direct femtosecond pulse compression with miniature-sized Bragg cholesteric liquid crystal

Liyan Song; Shenhe Fu; Yikun Liu; Jianying Zhou; Vladimir G. Chigrinov; Iam Choon Khoo

doi:10.1364/OL.38.005040

Direct femtosecond pulse compression with miniature-sized Bragg cholesteric liquid crystal

Liyan Song, Shenhe Fu, Yikun Liu, Jianying Zhou, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Iam Choon Khoo

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Direct compression of femtosecond optical pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser oscillator was realized with a cholesteric liquid crystal acting as a nonlinear 1D periodic Bragg grating. With a 6 μm thick sample, the pulse duration could be compressed from 100 to 48fs. Coupled-mode equations for forward and backward waves were employed to simulate the dynamics therein, and good agreement between theory and experiment was obtained.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5040-5042
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	38
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.005040
State	Published - Dec 1 2013

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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