Abstract
We investigate the evolution of optical pulses in a hollow waveguide filled with noble gas at pulse intensities for which tunnel ionization dominates the nonlinear response of the gas. A numerical analysis reveals that the spectral chirp generated by the plasma nonlinearity is to a good approximation linear over the whole pulse spectrum and can be compensated in a dispersive delay line. Our calculations predict the generation of 3–4-fs optical pulses with energies of a few milijoules. To our knowledge, these energies are an order of magnitude greater than the pulse energies that have been realized to date in hollow-fiber compressors based exclusively on the nonlinear Kerr effect.
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