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 …

Octave-wide broadening of ultraviolet dispersive wave driven by soliton-splitting dynamics

T Chen, J Pan, Z Huang, Y Yu, D Liu, X Chang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Coherent dispersive wave emission, as an important phenomenon of soliton dynamics,
manifests itself in multiple platforms of nonlinear optics from fibre waveguides to integrated …

Intense few-cycle visible pulses directly generated via nonlinear fibre mode mixing

R Piccoli, JM Brown, YG Jeong, A Rovere, L Zanotto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely short, high-energy pulses are essential in modern ultrafast science. In a seminal
paper in 1996, Nisoli and co-workers demonstrated the first intense pulse compression …

Infrared spectroscopic monitoring of solid-state processes

N Biliškov - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Infrared spectroscopy, ubiquitous in contemporary chemical laboratories, is frequently
underutilised for just the basic characterisation of products. However, its unique ability to …

Spectroscopic application of few-femtosecond deep-ultraviolet laser pulses from resonant dispersive wave emission in a hollow capillary fibre

N Kotsina, C Brahms, SL Jackson, JC Travers… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We exploit the phenomenon of resonant dispersive wave (RDW) emission in gas-filled
hollow capillary fibres (HCFs) to realize time-resolved photoelectron imaging (TRPEI) …

Dispersion tuning of nonlinear optical pulse dynamics in gas-filled hollow capillary fibers

T Grigorova, C Brahms, F Belli, JC Travers - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We experimentally investigate the nonlinear optical pulse dynamics of ultrashort laser
pulses propagating in gas-filled hollow capillary fibers in different dispersion regimes, which …

Scaling rules for high quality soliton self-compression in hollow-core fibers

D Schade, F Köttig, JR Koehler, MH Frosz… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Soliton dynamics can be used to temporally compress laser pulses to few fs durations in
many different spectral regions. Here we study analytically, numerically and experimentally …

[HTML][HTML] Optical solitons in hollow-core fibres

JC Travers - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
I review the historical observation and subsequent research on optical soliton dynamics in
gas-filled hollow-core optical fibres. I include both large-core hollow capillary fibres, and …

Soliton self-compression and resonant dispersive wave emission in higher-order modes of a hollow capillary fibre

C Brahms, JC Travers - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate soliton self-compression and ultraviolet resonant dispersive wave emission
in the higher-order modes of a gas-filled hollow capillary fibre (HCF). Our simple analytical …

Efficient and compact source of tuneable ultrafast deep ultraviolet laser pulses at 50 kHz repetition rate

C Brahms, JC Travers - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser pulses with tuneable wavelength and very short duration are a
key enabling technology for next-generation technology and ultrafast science. Their …