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Photonics Research
Vol. 10, Issue 10, 2405 (2022)

High-quality 8-fold self-compression of ultrashort near-UV pulses in an Ar-filled ultrathin-walled photonic crystal fiber

Jie Luan^{1、2、7、*}, Philip St.J. Russell¹, and David Novoa^{1、3、4、5、6、8、*}

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¹Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

²Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

³Department of Communications Engineering, Engineering School of Bilbao, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48013 Bilbao, Spain

⁴EHU Quantum Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48013 Bilbao, Spain

⁵IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48009 Bilbao, Spain

⁶Previously with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

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Jie Luan, Philip St.J. Russell, David Novoa. High-quality 8-fold self-compression of ultrashort near-UV pulses in an Ar-filled ultrathin-walled photonic crystal fiber[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(10): 2405 Copy Citation Text

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