Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Self-compression of high-intense laser pulses
Authors
Skupin, Stefan
Departments
Nichtlineare und relativistische Optik (Dr. Stefan Skupin)
MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Summary
The generation of shorter and shorter laser pulses is a great technological challenge. When trying to accomplish this task we have an important ally: the pulse itself. In so called Femtosecond Filaments self-compression of ultrashort light pulses is possible.