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 …

Attosecond physics at the nanoscale

MF Ciappina, JA Pérez-Hernández… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

Loss in hollow-core optical fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits

EN Fokoua, SA Mousavi, GT Jasion… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Over the past few years, progress in hollow-core optical fiber technology has reduced the
attenuation of these fibers to levels comparable to those of all-solid silica-core single-mode …

Hollow-core conjoined-tube negative-curvature fibre with ultralow loss

S Gao, Y Wang, W Ding, D Jiang, S Gu, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Countering the optical network 'capacity crunch'calls for a radical development in optical
fibres that could simultaneously minimize nonlinearity penalties, chromatic dispersion and …

High-energy pulse self-compression and ultraviolet generation through soliton dynamics in hollow capillary fibres

JC Travers, TF Grigorova, C Brahms, F Belli - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Optical soliton dynamics can cause extreme alteration of the temporal and spectral shape of
a propagating light pulse. This occurs at up to kilowatt peak powers in glass-core optical …

Negative curvature fibers

C Wei, RJ Weiblen, CR Menyuk, J Hu - Advances in Optics and …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We describe the history, guiding mechanism, recent advances, applications, and future
prospects for hollow-core negative curvature fibers. We first review one-dimensional slab …

Hollow-core fiber technology: The rising of “gas photonics”

B Debord, F Amrani, L Vincetti, F Gérôme, F Benabid - Fibers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since their inception, about 20 years ago, hollow-core photonic crystal fiber and its gas-filled
form are now establishing themselves both as a platform in advancing our knowledge on …

Single-mode, low loss hollow-core anti-resonant fiber designs

MS Habib, JE Antonio-Lopez, C Markos… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we numerically investigate various hollow-core anti-resonant (HC-AR) fibers
towards low propagation and bend loss with effectively single-mode operation in the …

7 μm, ultrafast, sub-millijoule-level mid-infrared optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier pumped at 2 μm

D Sanchez, M Hemmer, M Baudisch, SL Cousin… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel all-fiber pumped optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA)
architecture to generate self-carrier-to-envelope-phase stable, sub-eight-optical-cycle …

High-energy multidimensional solitary states in hollow-core fibres

R Safaei, G Fan, O Kwon, K Légaré, P Lassonde… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Multidimensional solitary states (MDSS)—self-sustained wavepackets—have attracted
renewed interest in many different fields of physics. They are of particular importance in …