Above-millijoule super-continuum generation using polarisation dependent filamentation in atoms and molecules.
We demonstrate for the first time that input polarisation control inducing one single filamentation is a very robust technique to accurately control the filamentation dynamics enhancing throughput energy of the supercontinuum generation up to 1.2 millijoule. Reaching the above-millijoule regime opens the way to post-compression of multi-terawatt laser pulses.
Varela
Oscar
O
Universidad de Salamanca, Area de Optica. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Salamanca,E-37008 Salamanca, Spain.
Zaïr
Amelle
A
San Román
Julio
J
Alonso
Benjamín
B
Sola
Iñigo Juan
IJ
Prieto
Camilo
C
Roso
Luis
L