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This chapter of the dissertation will discuss the average and peak power scalability of the achievements described in Chap. 2, i.e. few-cycle pulse generation and CEP stabilization. In the thesis’ introduction, this has been proclaimed as the general goal of current femtosecond laser development. However, there are often application dependent preferences in scaling either pulse energy or repetition rate, rather than both. A few examples shall be sketched to enable a more specific discussion of the results presented in the ensuing sections.
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Parts of Sect. 3.1.2 have been published in Ref. [49]: K. F. Mak, M. Seidel, O. Pronin, M. H. Frosz, A. Abdolvand, V. Pervak, A. Apolonski, F. Krausz, J. C. Travers, and P. St. J. Russell, https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.001238“Compressing \(\upmu \)J-level pulses from 250 fs to sub-10 fs at 38 MHz repetition rate using two gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber stages”, Opt. Lett. 40, 1238 (2015).
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Parts of Sect. 3.2.1 have been published in Ref. [98]: M. Seidel, G. Arisholm, J. Brons, V. Pervak, and O. Pronin, https://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-24-9-9412,“All solid-state spectral broadening: an average and peak power scalable method for compression of ultrashort pulses”, Optics Express, 24, 9412 (2016).
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Parts of Sect. 3.2.2 have been published in Ref. [123]: M. Seidel, J. Brons, G. Arisholm, K. Fritsch, V. Pervak, and O. Pronin, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01504-x “Efficient High-Power Ultrashort Pulse Compression in Self-Defocusing Bulk Media”, Sci. Rep. 7, 1410 (2017).
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