title: Supercontinuum generation in aqueous colloids containing silver nanoparticles.
abstract: We numerically study low-threshold supercontinuum generation using the significant enhancement of nonlinearity in aqueous colloids with silver nanoparticles. We predict octave-spanning spectral broadening by femtosecond pulses with an intensity in the range of tens of GW/cm2. The strong frequency dependence of the effective nonlinear coefficient of the composite significantly influences the spectral broadening by self-phase modulation and leads to a large blueshift of the spectra.
authors.affiliation: Max-Born-Institut for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Driben
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Husakou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herrmann