title: High-power soliton-induced supercontinuum generation and tunable sub-10-fs VUV pulses from kagome-lattice HC-PCFs.
abstract: 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% of the output radiation energy forms a narrow UV/VUV band, which can be tuned by controlling 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 microJ, caused by the formation of a high-order soliton emitting non-solitonic radiation.
authors.affiliation: Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy,Max-Born-Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany. song-jin.im@mbi-berlin.de
authors.forename: Song-Jin
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Im
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Husakou
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005741:Noble Gases / Q000737:chemistry*; D055096:Optical Devices; D017785:Photons; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D005741:Noble Gases