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An important pre-requisite for a number of fundamental physics experiments, such as the generation of single attosecond pulses by high-order harmonic generation [1], and the investigation of absolute phase effects in nonlinear processes [2], is the availability of high-peak power laser pulses in the sub-4-fs regime. In the past decade, various sources have become available that are capable of producing supercontinua in the visible and near-infrared spectral region. However, it was only recently that a high-energy supercontinuum from two cascaded hollow fibers with bandwidths exceeding 500 THz was generated [3]. The remaining challenge is then to compress these enormous bandwidths to finally yield an isolated ultrashort optical pulse.
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Biegert, J. et al. (2004). Generation of 3.8-fs Pulses Through Adaptive Cascaded Hollow Fiber Compression. In: Krausz, F., Korn, G., Corkum, P., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Ultrafast Optics IV. Springer Series in OPTICAL SCIENCES, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34756-1_11
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