title: Soliton-effect pulse compression in the single-cycle regime in broadband dielectric-coated metallic hollow waveguides.
abstract: We study soliton-effect pulse compression in the single-cycle region in dielectric-coated metallic hollow waveguides filled with a noble gas exploiting the broad region of anomalous dispersion in these waveguides. We predict the compression of a 20-fs pulse to a FWHM duration of 1.7 fs with an energy of 6 muJ and study the physical factors determining the limitations on shortest pulses in the single-cycle regime.
authors.affiliation: Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy Max Born Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany. gusakov@mbi-berlin.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Husakou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008670:Metals; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers
chemical_list: D008670:Metals