High-energy few-cycle pulses: post-compression techniques

T Nagy, P Simon, L Veisz - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary ultrafast science requires reliable sources of high-energy few-cycle light
pulses. Currently two methods are capable of generating such pulses: post compression of …

Extreme Raman red shift: ultrafast multimode nonlinear space-time dynamics, pulse compression, and broadly tunable frequency conversion

PA Carpeggiani, G Coccia, G Fan, E Kaksis, A Pugžlys… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Ultrashort high-energy pulses at wavelengths longer than 1 µm are now desirable for a vast
variety of applications in ultrafast and strong-field physics. To date, the main answer to the …

Multioctave supercontinuum generation and frequency conversion based on rotational nonlinearity

JE Beetar, M Nrisimhamurty, TC Truong, GC Nagar… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The field of attosecond science was first enabled by nonlinear compression of intense laser
pulses to a duration below two optical cycles. Twenty years later, creating such short pulses …

Phase-matching-free pulse retrieval based on transient absorption in solids

A Leblanc, P Lassonde, S Petit, JC Delagnes… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we introduce a pulse characterization technique that is free of phase-matching
constraints, exploiting transient absorption in solids as an ultrafast optical switch. Based on a …

Nonlinear pulse compression to 22 fs at 15.6 µJ by an all-solid-state multipass approach

E Vicentini, Y Wang, D Gatti, A Gambetta, P Laporta… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate nonlinear compression of pulses at 1.03 µm and repetition rate of 200 kHz
generated by a ytterbium fiber laser using two cascaded all-solid-state multipass cells. The …

[HTML][HTML] Generating ultrashort visible light pulses based on multidimensional solitary states in gas-filled hollow core fiber

M Kumar, M Arshadipirlar, R Safaei, H Ibrahim… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Multidimensional solitary states (MDSS) are self-sustaining light wave packets confined in
multiple dimensions in multimode fibers. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate the …

Hollow-core fiber compression of a commercial Yb: KGW laser amplifier

JE Beetar, F Rivas, S Gholam-Mirzaei, Y Liu, M Chini - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
High-repetition-rate high-harmonic sources are desired for novel attosecond and time-
resolved spectroscopies. One route to generating these sources is the nonlinear …

Tunable single-polarization single-mode negative-curvature fiber with an asymmetrical refractive index cladding for mid-infrared region

S Yan, S Lou, Z Lian, W Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a hollow-core negative-curvature fiber implementing tunable single-polarization
single-mode operation at mid-infrared region. This fiber owns asymmetrical geometry …

Spectral broadening for pulse compression using liquid alcohols

JA Stephen, CJ Arachchige… - Journal of Physics B …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Although gases, and more recently solids, have been used to create few-cycle pulses, we
explore using liquid alcohols for spectral broadening and femtosecond pulse compression …

Spectral broadening and pulse compression in molecular gas-filled hollow-core fibers

TC Truong, C Lantigua, Y Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gas-filled hollow-core fibers have over the last three decades emerged as a key technology
for ultrafast nonlinear optics and strong-field physics. Today, noble gas-filled capillary and …