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In the last years, different methods of laser pulse post-compression have proven their efficiency. Nonlinear spectral broadening achieved when coupling an ultrafast pulse in a gas-filled multi-pass-cell (MPC) provides common pulse compression factors of 10 to 20, depending on the initial pulse duration. We report here on the compression of up to 2 mJ, 330 fs pulses of an Ytterbium (Yb) based laser down to sub-20 fs (compression factor of 17), using argon-filled MPCs, at the limit of temporal pulse breakup. Numerical calculations reproducing the experiment data, and demonstrating the importance of the driver pulse profile on the shape of the broadened spectra, are discussed.

We report here on the experimental pulse duration compression down to sub-20fs of up to 2mJ, 330fs pulses of an 80W Ytterbium laser, using argon-filled multi-pass-cell reproduced by numerical calculations stressing the role of the driver pulse profile.

Generating high-energy few-cycle pulses is key in the study of light-matter interaction in the regime of high field physics. Attosecond science possess the necessary time resolution to study the underlying fundamental processes but requires repetitions rates on the order the kilohertz and stabilization of the Carrier-Envelope Phase. We present here a post-compression stage delivering 3.8fs pulses with 2.5mJ coupled to a Ti: Sa based 1 kHz TW-class laser which can deliver 17.8fs pulses with 350mrad shot to shot CEP noise. This is the first step towards high-energy few-cycle post-compression of the FAB laser at ATTOLAB-Orme.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Anne L'Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter". In this article, we contextualize their seminal works and their central roles that led to the emergence of a global ultrafast community exploring the frontiers of electron dynamics in dilute and condensed matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]