[CWP2E] Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Nonlinear Propagation I

[CWP2E-04] Energy-Scaling of Multi-Pass Cell Post-Compression: The Bow Tie MPC Scheme

*Arthur Schoenberg¹, Markus Seidel¹, Esmerando Escoto¹, Stefanos Carlström^4,5, Gunnar Arisholm⁶, Tino Lang¹, Ingmar Hartl¹, Christoph M. Heyl^1,2,3 (1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany), 2. Helmholtz-Institut Jena (Germany), 3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (Germany), 4. Department of Physics, Lund University (Sweden), 5. Max-Born-Institut (Germany), 6. FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment) (Norway))

[Presentation Style] Onsite

We introduce the bow tie multi-pass cell as a new scheme for post-compression of high-energy laser pulses, overcoming current limits of Herriott-type multi-pass cell-based post-compression imposed mainly by mirror damage threshold limitations.