Multioctave, 3-18  μm sub-two-cycle supercontinua from self-compressing, self-focusing soliton transients in a solid

Optics Letters
A A LaninA M Zheltikov

Abstract

Strongly coupled nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrashort mid-infrared pulses undergoing self-focusing simultaneously with soliton self-compression in an anomalously dispersive, highly nonlinear solid semiconductor is shown to enable the generation of multioctave supercontinua with spectra spanning the entire mid-infrared range and compressible to subcycle pulse widths. With 7.9 μm, 150 fs, 2 μJ, 1 kHz pulses used as a driver, 1.2 cycle pulses of mid-infrared supercontinuum radiation with a spectrum spanning the range of wavelengths from 3 to 18 μm were generated in a 5 mm GaAs plate. Further compression of these pulses to subcycle pulse widths is possible through compensation of the residual phase shift.

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Apr 4, 2017·Scientific Reports·A A Voronin, A M Zheltikov
May 2, 2018·Science Advances·Marcus SeidelFerenc Krausz
Nov 25, 2018·Optics Express·N BiglerU Keller
Apr 14, 2019·Scientific Reports·Derrek J WilsonCarlos A Trallero-Herrero
Mar 16, 2019·Optics Letters·A MarcinkevičiūtėA Dubietis
Sep 11, 2020·Optics Express·Jonathan HeinzMiroslav Kolesik
Nov 25, 2018·Optics Express·J Tolliver, M Kolesik
Jul 28, 2017·Nature Communications·Houkun LiangKyung-Han Hong

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