Terawatt optical attosecond pulses and 100 GW-scale far-ultraviolet pulses through extreme soliton dynamics

Abstract

We present the extreme soliton (XSOL) beamline, which generates terawatt-scale sub-femtosecond self-compressed visible-infrared pulses as well as sub-3 fs far-ultraviolet pulses with energy exceeding 170 uJ at 240 nm and wavelength tuneability down to 140 nm.