Walk-off-induced modulation instability, temporal pattern formation, and frequency comb generation in cavity-enhanced second-harmonic generation

F Leo, T Hansson, I Ricciardi, M De Rosa, S Coen… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We derive a time-domain mean-field equation to model the full temporal and spectral
dynamics of light in singly resonant cavity-enhanced second-harmonic generation systems …

Ultrabroadband supercontinuum and third-harmonic generation in bulk solids with two optical-cycle carrier-envelope phase-stable pulses at 2 μm

J Darginavičius, D Majus, V Jukna, N Garejev… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report on the generation of ultrabroadband supercontinuum (SC) by filamentation of two
optical-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable pulses at 2 μm in fused silica, sapphire, CaF_2 …

Even and odd harmonics-enhanced supercontinuum generation in zinc-blende semiconductors

R Šuminas, A Marcinkevičiūtė, G Tamošauskas… - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We report on even and odd harmonics-enhanced supercontinuum generation in
polycrystalline ZnS and ZnSe samples, as pumped by femtosecond mid-infrared pulses. We …

Nature, diffraction-free propagation via space-time correlations, and nonlinear generation of time-diffracting light beams

MA Porras - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We investigate the properties of the recently introduced time-diffracting (TD) beams in free
space. They are shown to be paraxial and quasimonochromatic realizations of …

[HTML][HTML] Invited Article: Multiple-octave spanning high-energy mid-IR supercontinuum generation in bulk quadratic nonlinear crystals

B Zhou, M Bache - Apl Photonics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Bright and broadband coherent mid-IR radiation is important for exciting and probing
molecular vibrations. Using cascaded nonlinearities in conventional quadratic nonlinear …

Spatiotemporal light bullets and supercontinuum generation in β-BBO crystal with competing quadratic and cubic nonlinearities

R Šuminas, G Tamošauskas, G Valiulis, A Dubietis - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally study filamentation and supercontinuum generation in a birefringent
medium [beta-barium borate (β-BBO) crystal] pumped by intense 90 fs, 1.8 μm laser pulses …

Second-order cascading-assisted filamentation and controllable supercontinuum generation in birefringent crystals

R Šuminas, G Tamošauskas, V Jukna, A Couairon… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally investigate filamentation and supercontinuum generation in a
birefringent medium (BBO crystal), in the self-focusing regime where intrinsic cubic …

Second-harmonic generation in lithium niobate nanowires for local fluorescence excitation

A Sergeyev, R Geiss, AS Solntsev, A Steinbrück… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We study the nonlinear optical properties of lithium niobate (LiNbO_3) nanowires (NWs)
fabricated by a top-down ion beam enhanced etching method. First, we demonstrate …

Third-and fifth-harmonic generation in transparent solids with few-optical-cycle midinfrared pulses

N Garejev, I Gražulevičiūtė, D Majus, G Tamošauskas… - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We report an experimental and numerical investigation of third-and fifth-harmonic
generation in a CaF 2 crystal with 20 fs (three-optical-cycle), 2 μ m driving pulses. The …

Parametrically tunable soliton-induced resonant radiation by three-wave mixing

BB Zhou, X Liu, HR Guo, XL Zeng, XF Chen… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We show that a temporal soliton can induce resonant radiation by three-wave mixing
nonlinearities. This constitutes a new class of resonant radiation whose spectral positions …