%0 Journal Article %T Efficient cross polarized wave generation for compact, energy-scalable, ultrashort laser sources %+ Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa %+ Institut de la Lumiére Extrême (ILE) %+ Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules (SPAM) %+ Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (LOA) %+ Laser Solutions Unit %A Ramirez, Patricia %A Papadopoulos, Dimitris N. %A Pellegrina, A. %A Georges, Patrick %A Druon, Frédéric %A Monot, P. %A Ricci, A. %A Jullien, A. %A Chen, X. %A Rousseau, Jean-Philippe %A Lopez-Martens, Rodrigo B. %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1094-4087 %J Optics Express %I Optical Society of America - OSA Publishing %V 19 %N 1 %P 93-98 %8 2011 %D 2011 %R 10.1364/oe.19.000093 %Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]Journal articles %X The generation of high contrast and ultrashort laser pulses via a compact and energy-scalable cross polarized wave filter is presented. The setup incorporates a waveguide spatial filter into a single crystal XPW configuration, enabling high energy and high intensity transmission, efficient contrast enhancement and pulse shortening at the multi-mJ level. Excellent XPW conversion of up to 33% (global efficiency: 20%, intensity transmission: 40%) led to an output energy of 650 ?J for an input of 3.3 mJ. Additionally, efficient conversion under specific input phase conditions, allowed pulse shortening from 25 fs to 9.6 fs, indicating the prospective application of this setup as a high energy, ultrabroad laser source. © 2010 Optical Society of America. %G English %2 https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00838480/document %2 https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00838480/file/00838480.pdf %L hal-00838480 %U https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00838480 %~ CEA %~ X %~ IOGS %~ ENSTA %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-PSUD %~ X-LOA %~ X-DEP %~ X-DEP-PHYS %~ PARISTECH %~ LCFIO %~ LCF_LASBIO %~ LCF_LASERS %~ ENSTA_LOA %~ SPAM %~ UNIV-PARIS-SACLAY %~ UNIV-PSUD-SACLAY %~ IRAMIS