Multi-TW peak power laser pulses with sub-5 fs duration from a single thin-plate compressor (Conference Presentation)

Results of the post-compression of SYLOS lasers to the single-cycle regime are presented with unprecedentedly high 1.1 TW to 2.7 TW input peak power. Spatial filtering of the input pulses and by utilizing a single thin fused silica plate as the nonlinear medium allowed us to reach well compressed 1.4- and 1.8-cycle pulses at 10 Hz and 1 kHz repetition rates starting from 12 fs and 7.5 fs durations, respectively. Spatio-spectral and temporal characterization of the compressed pulses confirmed their high quality. The >3 TW pulses will be used for ion acceleration and neutron generation experiments.