Relativistic near-single-cycle optics at 1 kHz
Plasma Physics
2020-04-03 v1 Optics
Abstract
We present a laser source delivering waveform-controlled 1.5-cycle pulses that can be focused to relativistic intensity at 1 kHz repetition rate. These pulses are generated by nonlinear compression of high-temporal-contrast sub-25\,fs pulses from a kHz Ti:Sapphire double-chirped pulse amplifier in a stretched flexible hollow fiber compressor scaled for high peak power. The unique capabilities of this source are demonstrated by observing carrier-envelope phase effects in laser-wakefield acceleration of relativistic electrons for the first time.
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@article{arxiv.1907.01239,
title = {Relativistic near-single-cycle optics at 1 kHz},
author = {Marie Ouillé and Aline Vernier and Frederik Boehle and Maimouna Bocoum and Magali Lozano and Jean-Philippe Rousseau and Zhao Cheng and Domynikas Gustas and Andreas Blumenstein and Peter Simon and Stefan Haessler and Jérôme Faure and Tamas Nagy and Rodrigo Lopez-Martens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01239},
year = {2020}
}