Laser-induced filaments in the mid-infrared

AM Zheltikov - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-induced filamentation in the mid-infrared gives rise to unique regimes of nonlinear
wave dynamics and reveals in many ways unusual nonlinear-optical properties of materials …

27 W 2.1 µm OPCPA system for coherent soft X-ray generation operating at 10 kHz

T Feng, A Heilmann, M Bock, L Ehrentraut, T Witting… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We developed a high power optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) system
at 2.1? µm harnessing a 500? W Yb: YAG thin disk laser as the only pump and signal …

Hollow-core-waveguide compression of multi-millijoule CEP-stable 3.2 μm pulses

G Fan, T Balčiūnas, T Kanai, T Flöry, G Andriukaitis… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present the extension of high-power pulse compression deeper into the challenging IR
spectral range around 3.2 μm wavelength, where the effects of material absorption …

Temporal characterization of femtosecond laser pulses using tunneling ionization in the UV, visible, and mid-IR ranges

W Cho, SI Hwang, CH Nam, MR Bionta, P Lassonde… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
To generalize the applicability of the temporal characterization technique called “tunneling
ionization with a perturbation for the time-domain observation of an electric field”(TIPTOE) …

Sub-cycle pulse revealed with carrier-envelope phase control of soliton self-compression in anti-resonant hollow-core fiber

IV Savitsky, AA Voronin, EA Stepanov, AA Lanin… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The influence of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of a pump pulse on the multioctave
supercontinuum (SC) generation in a gas-filled anti-resonant hollow-core fiber (AR HCF) by …

Single-cycle, multigigawatt carrier–envelope-phase-tailored near-to-mid-infrared driver for strong-field nonlinear optics

IV Savitsky, EA Stepanov, AA Lanin, AB Fedotov… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A short-pulse, frequency-tunable idler-wave output of a two-stage optical parametric
amplifier is compressed in a gas-filled antiresonance-guiding hollow-core photonic-crystal …

Time-domain ptychography of over-octave-spanning laser pulses in the single-cycle regime

T Witting, D Greening, D Walke, P Matia-Hernando… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first application of time-domain ptychography for
the characterization of few-cycle laser pulses. Our method enables zero-additional phase …

HHG at the carbon K-edge directly driven by SRS red-shifted pulses from an ytterbium amplifier

M Dorner-Kirchner, V Shumakova, G Coccia… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this work, we introduce a simplified approach to efficiently extend the high harmonic
generation (HHG) cutoff in gases without the need for laser frequency conversion via …

Temporal characterization of two-octave infrared pulses by frequency resolved optical switching

A Leblanc, A Longa, M Kumar, A Laramée… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the temporal characterization of infrared pulses with spectra extending from 0.55
to 2.5 μm by using the frequency resolved optical switching (FROSt) technique. The pulses …

Spatio-temporal characterization of intense few-cycle 2 μm pulses

DR Austin, T Witting, SJ Weber, P Ye, T Siegel… - Optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present a variant of spatially encoded spectral shearing interferometry for measuring two-
dimensional spatio-temporal slices of few-cycle pulses centered around 2 μm. We …