240 research outputs found
High-power Soliton-induced Supercontinuum Generation and Tunable Sub-10-fs VUV Pulses from Kagome-lattice HC-PCFs
We theoretically study a novel approach for soliton-induced high-power
supercontinuum generation by using kagome lattice HC-PCFs filled with a noble
gas. Anomalous dispersion and broad-band low loss of these fibers enable the
generation of two-octave broad spectra by fs pulses, with high coherence and
high spectral peak power densities up to five orders of magnitude larger than
in standard PCFs. In addition, up to 20 percents of the output radiation energy
forms a narrow UV/VUV band, which can be tuned by contolling the pressure in
the range from 350 nm to 120 nm. In the temporal domain this corresponds to
sub-10-fs UV/VUV pulses with pulse energy of few tens of microjoule, caused by
the formation of a high-order soliton emitting non-solitonic radiation.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Theory of plasmon-enhanced high-harmonic generation in the vicinity of metal nanostructures in noble gases
We present a semiclassical model for plasmon-enhanced high-harmonic
generation (HHG) in the vicinity of metal nanostructures. We show that both the
inhomogeneity of the enhanced local fields and electron absorption by the metal
surface play an important role in the HHG process and lead to the generation of
even harmonics and to a significantly increased cutoff. For the examples of
silver-coated nanocones and bowtie antennas we predict that the required
intensity reduces by up to three orders of magnitudes and the HHG cutoff
increases by more than a factor of two. The study of the enhanced high-harmonic
generation is connected with a finite-element simulation of the electric field
enhancement due to the excitation of the plasmonic modes.Comment: 4 figure
Two-photon laser scanning fluorescence microscopy using photonic crystal fibre
We report the application of a simple yet powerful modular pulse compression system, based on photonic crystal fibres which improves upon incumbent twophoton laser scanning fluorescence microscopy techniques. This system provided more than a 7-fold increase in fluorescence yield when compared with a commercial two-photon microscopy system. From this, we infer pulses of infrared radiaton of less than 35 fs duration reaching the sample
Ionization-induced Susceptibility by Nearly-free Electrons in Gases Influenced by the Coulomb Potential
In the present paper we study the influence of the Coulomb potential on the
real and imaginary parts of the plasma-induced susceptibility in a photoionized
gas. We show that the real part of the susceptibility is more than one order of
magnitude larger due to the action of a Coulomb potential. Surprisingly, the
long-range Coulomb potential of the atomic core leads to an additional
contribution to the imaginary part of the susceptibility which has no
counterpart in the case of a short-range potential. We demonstrate that the
origin of this behavior are electrons in states very close to the continuum
(nearly-free electrons), and analyze the dependence of the susceptibility on
the intensity and wavelengths.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Effects of Metal Nanoparticles Composites
We present a theoretical method for the calculation of the transient nonlinearity in dielectric composites doped with metal nanoparticles and demonstrate some applications of this approach. First, we describe the theoretical basis of the linear and nonlinear properties of metal nanoparticles by using the time-domain discrete-dipole approximation. By using the two-temperature model for the description of the electron-electron and electron-lattice interaction, we derive an equation for the transient third-order nonlinear susceptibility. Based on this method and the effective medium approximation, we present numerical results for the nonlinear optical susceptibility for different nanocomposites media consisting of noble metal nanoparticles surrounded by a dielectric host. With increasing pump intensities, the plasmon resonance is shifted which leads to a saturation of the absorption. We present a theory of mode-locking of solid-state and semiconductor disk lasers using metal nanocomposites as saturable absorbers. Finally, we consider a novel slow-light device based on metal nanocomposites
Multistability at arbitrary low optical intensities in a metallo-dielectric layered structure
We show that a nonlinear metallo-dielectric layered slab of subwavelength
thickness and very small average dielectric permittivity displays optical
multistable behavior at arbitrary low optical intensities. This is due to the
fact that, in the presence of the small linear permittivity, one of the
multiple electromagnetic slab states exists no matter how small is the
transmitted optical intensity. We prove that multiple states at ultra-low
optical intensities can be reached only by simultaneously operating on the
incident optical intensity and incidence angle. By performing full wave
simulations, we prove that the predicted phenomenology is feasible and very
robust.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Frequency-selective self-trapping and supercontinuum generation in arrays of coupled nonlinear waveguides
We study spatiotemporal dynamics of soliton-induced twooctave-
broad supercontinuum generated by fs pulses in an array of coupled
nonlinear waveguides. We show that after fission of the input pulse into
several fundamental solitons, red and blue-shifted nonsolitonic radiation, as
well as solitons with lower intensity, spread away in transverse direction,
while the most intense spikes self-trap into spatiotemporal discrete solitons
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