Simple route toward efficient frequency conversion for generation of fully coherent supercontinua in the mid-IR and UV range

Ihar Babushkin; Ayhan Tajalli; Hakan Sayinc; Uwe Morgner; Günter Steinmeyer; Ayhan Demircan

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.218

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Simple route toward efficient frequency conversion for generation of fully coherent supercontinua in the mid-IR and UV range

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- Simple route toward efficient frequency conversion for generation of fully coherent supercontinua in the mid-IR and UV range
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 1, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167 Hanover, Germany
  2.Max Born Institute (MBI), 12489 Berlin, Germany
  3.Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., 30419 Hanover, Germany
  4.Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies, 30167 Hanover, Germany
- Author bio：
  
  I Babushkin, Email: babushkin@iqo.uni-hannover.de
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.218
  CLC：
- Published：2017-03，
  
  Published Online：06 September 2016，
  
  Received：01 March 2016，
  
  Revised：01 September 2016，
  
  Accepted：04 September 2016
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Babushkin, I. et al. Simple route toward efficient frequency conversion for generation of fully coherent supercontinua in the mid-IR and UV range. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16218 (2017).
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Babushkin, I. et al. Simple route toward efficient frequency conversion for generation of fully coherent supercontinua in the mid-IR and UV range. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16218 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.218.

摘要

Abstract

Fiber supercontinua represent light sources of pivotal importance for a wide range of applications

ranging from optical communications to frequency metrology. Although spectra encompassing more than three octaves can be produced

the applicability of such spectra is strongly hampered due to coherence degradation during spectral broadening. Assuming pulse parameters at the cutting edge of currently available laser technology

we demonstrate the possibility of strongly coherent supercontinuum generation. In a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths a higher-order soliton experiences a temporal breakdown

without any compression or splitting behavior

which leads to nearly complete conversion of input solitonic radiation into resonant nonsolitonic radiation in the dispersive wave regime. As the process is completely deterministic and shows little sensitivity to input noise

the resulting pulses appear to be compressible down to the sub-cycle level and may thus hold a new opportunity for direct generation of attosecond pulses in the visible to near ultraviolet wavelength range.

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attosecond pulsesoptical solitonssupercontinuumultrashort pulses

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