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Photonics Research, Volume. 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

⁷e-mail: jie.luan@mpl.mpg.de

⁸e-mail: david.novoa@ehu.eus

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: May. 31, 2022

Accepted: Aug. 23, 2022

Published Online: Sep. 30, 2022

The Author Email: Jie Luan (jie.luan@mpl.mpg.de), David Novoa (david.novoa@ehu.eus)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.464376

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