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Gierschke P, Grebing C, Abdelaal M, Lenski M, Buldt J, Wang Z, Heuermann T, Mueller M, Gebhardt M, Rothhardt J, Limpert J. Nonlinear pulse compression to 51-W average power GW-class 35-fs pulses at 2-µm wavelength in a gas-filled multi-pass cell. Opt Lett 2022; 47:3511-3514. [PMID: 35838716 DOI: 10.1364/ol.462647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We report on the generation of GW-class peak power, 35-fs pulses at 2-µm wavelength with an average power of 51 W at 300-kHz repetition rate. A compact, krypton-filled Herriott-type cavity employing metallic mirrors is used for spectral broadening. This multi-pass compression stage enables the efficient post compression of the pulses emitted by an ultrafast coherently combined thulium-doped fiber laser system. The presented results demonstrate an excellent preservation of the input beam quality in combination with a power transmission as high as 80%. These results show that multi-pass cell based post-compression is an attractive alternative to nonlinear spectral broadening in fibers, which is commonly employed for thulium-doped and other mid-infrared ultrafast laser systems. Particularly, the average power scalability and the potential to achieve few-cycle pulse durations make this scheme highly attractive.
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Gebhardt M, Heuermann T, Klas R, Liu C, Kirsche A, Lenski M, Wang Z, Gaida C, Antonio-Lopez JE, Schülzgen A, Amezcua-Correa R, Rothhardt J, Limpert J. Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre. Light Sci Appl 2021; 10:36. [PMID: 33579895 PMCID: PMC7881106 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00477-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Bright, coherent soft X-ray radiation is essential to a variety of applications in fundamental research and life sciences. To date, a high photon flux in this spectral region can only be delivered by synchrotrons, free-electron lasers or high-order harmonic generation sources, which are driven by kHz-class repetition rate lasers with very high peak powers. Here, we establish a novel route toward powerful and easy-to-use SXR sources by presenting a compact experiment in which nonlinear pulse self-compression to the few-cycle regime is combined with phase-matched high-order harmonic generation in a single, helium-filled antiresonant hollow-core fibre. This enables the first 100 kHz-class repetition rate, table-top soft X-ray source that delivers an application-relevant flux of 2.8 × 106 photon s-1 eV-1 around 300 eV. The fibre integration of temporal pulse self-compression (leading to the formation of the necessary strong-field waveforms) and pressure-controlled phase matching will allow compact, high-repetition-rate laser technology, including commercially available systems, to drive simple and cost-effective, coherent high-flux soft X-ray sources.
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- M Gebhardt
- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany.
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany.
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Active Fiber Systems GmbH, Ernst-Ruska-Ring 17, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745, Jena, Germany
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BACKGROUND The hands of medical stuff are the most important vectors for the transmission of pathogens in the hospital. Furthermore a "bare below the elbows dress code" has been introduced in Great Britain. OBJECTIVES Aim of this study was to investigate whether workwear contamination of the medical stuff by pathogens is similar to the contamination of their hands and whether wearing workwear is associated with increased transmission risk. MATERIAL AND METHODS In total 54 swabs were collected from nursing stuff, medical doctors, patients and hospital work material. RESULTS Patients had a statistically significant more dense colonization with bacteria (median = 73 colony-forming units (CFU)), than the sleeves of the doctor's coat (median = 36 CFU, p = 0,005), followed by workwear of the nursing stuff at the end of a shift (median = 23 CFU, p < 0,001) and the hospital work material (median = 15 CFU, p < 0,001). Isolated pathogens were coagulase-negative staphylococci, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter cloacae and Acinetobacter species. CONCLUSIONS Contaminated work wear presents a relevant risk for the transmission of pathogens. A "bare below the elbow dress-code" or the daily change of the doctor's coat appear both to represent reasonable measures to reduce the transmission risk of pathogens in hospitals.
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- M Lenski
- Neurochirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Marchioninistraße 15, 81377, München, Deutschland. .,Orthpädie und Unfallchirurgie, HELIOS Klinikum Dachau, akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der LMU München, Krankenhausstraße 15, 85221, Dachau, Deutschland.
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- Orthpädie und Unfallchirurgie, HELIOS Klinikum Dachau, akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der LMU München, Krankenhausstraße 15, 85221, Dachau, Deutschland
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Lenski M, Kazakov A, Marx N, Böhm M, Laufs U. Effects of DPP-4 inhibition on cardiac metabolism and function in mice. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2011; 51:906-18. [PMID: 21871459 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2011.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2011] [Revised: 06/27/2011] [Accepted: 08/05/2011] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of cardiac complications. Inhibitors of dipeptidylpeptidase 4 (DPP-4) are novel drugs for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. The effect of DPP-4 inhibitors on myocardial metabolism has not been studied in detail. In wild-type C57Bl6-mice, 3weeks of treatment with sitagliptin had no effect on body weight and glucose tolerance nor on phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and acetyl-CoAcarboxylase (ACC), phosphofructokinase-2 (PFK2) or tuberin-2 (TSC2) in the left ventricular myocardium. However, in 10week old db/db-/- mice, a model of diabetes and obesity, sitagliptin potently reduced plasma glucose rise in peritoneal glucose tolerance tests and reduced weight increase. The myocardium of untreated db/db-/- mice exhibited a marked increase of the phosphorylation of AMPK, ACC, TSC2, expression of p53 and fatty acid translocase (FAT/CD36) membrane expression. These changes were reduced by DPP-4 inhibition. Sitagliptin showed no effect on cardiomyocyte size but prevented myocardial fibrosis in the 10week old db/db-/- mice and reduced expression of TGF-β1, markers of oxidative stress and the accumulation of advanced glycation end products in cardiomyocytes. Working heart analyses did not show an effect of sitagliptin on parameters of systolic cardiac function. In animals with diabetes and obesity, sitagliptin improved glucose tolerance, reduced weight gain, myocardial fibrosis and oxidative stress. Furthermore the study provides evidence that treatment with sitagliptin decreases elevated myocardial fatty acid uptake and oxidation in the diabetic heart. These observations show beneficial myocardial metabolic effect of DPP-4 inhibition in this mouse model of diabetes and obesity.
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- M Lenski
- Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Kardiologie, Angiologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
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