Tunable optimal compression of ultrabroadband pulses by cross-phase modulation.
We show how cross-phase modulation between two pulses, combined with optimal pulse shaping at the input of a dielectric medium, can be used to generate nearly single-cycle pulses that are tunable from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared at the output of the medium, precompensating for dispersion to all orders.
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 0R6, Canada.
Michael
M
Spanner
Misha Yu
MY
Ivanov
Vladimir
V
Kalosha
Joachim
J
Hermann
Douwe A
DA
Wiersma
Maxim
M
Pshenichnikov