Softphotonics has emerged as a new discipline that utilizes soft matter (ie, liquids, gels, bio‐
materials) as waveguide materials with versatile functionalities. The flexible properties of soft …

The discovery of optical solitons being understood as temporally and spectrally stationary
optical states has enabled numerous innovations among which, most notably …

It has long been known that nonlinear refraction in solvents can depend on pulse width, and
this along with experimental uncertainties has led to orders-of-magnitude disagreements in …

Comparative single-shot pulse study of ablation topographies and depths on Si surfaces
excited by 1030-nm sub-(0.3 ps) and pico-picosecond (10 ps) laser pulses at different laser …

Supercontinuum generation enabled a series of key technologies such as frequency comb
sources, ultrashort pulse sources in the ultraviolet or the mid-infrared, as well as broadband …

Deep sub-wavelength, large-scale surface nanopatterning of silicon (Si) wafers immersed in
water or carbon disulfide, in the form of ultrafine nanoripples was performed by multi-shot …

Supercontinuum generation in highly birefringent fiber infiltrated with carbon disulfide is
numerically studied with a linearly polarized femtosecond laser (1560 nm wavelength, 90 fs …

We investigated the magnitude and origin of the nonlinear refraction in several solvents with
the nonlinear ellipse rotation measurements as a function of the pulse duration in the range …

Most recent broad supercontinuum sources have used nonlinear fibers with small core
diameters, resulting in low coupling efficiency, limiting power level launching into the fiber …

The generation of tailored supercontinua is essential for studying ultrafast light-matter
interactions and for a variety of practical applications requiring broadband light. Liquid-core …