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  • 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2019),
  • paper cf_p_29

Plasma profile along a hollow-core photonic crystal fibre measured with counter-propagating probe solitons

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Abstract

Short laser pulses undergoing soliton self-compression in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (HC-PCF) can reach intensities sufficient to significantly ionise the gas under many experimental conditions. Due to the long-lived nature of the plasma, this may affect the propagation dynamics of subsequent pulses and thus limit scaling to higher repetition rates [1, 2]. Here we report experimental measurements and a numerical study of the free electron density distribution along the length of a gas-filled HC-PCF including its temporal evolution (with a few fs resolution) over 1 ns after the ionisation event. The plasma causes the effective refractive index of the modes to decrease which, in turns, alters the phase-matching conditions for dispersive wave (DW) generation from counter-propagating probe pulse, which shifts to higher frequencies in the ultraviolet. By measuring this shift we can detect free electron densities as low as ~1016 cm-3, corresponding to a drop of refractive index of only ~10-6.

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