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Soliton-effect compression of supercontinuum to few-cycle durations in photonic nanowires

Mark A. Foster, Alexander L. Gaeta, Qiang Cao, and Rick Trebino

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Abstract

By exploiting the broad region of anomalous group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and the large effective nonlinearity of photonic nanowires, we demonstrate soliton-effect self-compression of 70-fs pulses down to 6.8 fs. Under suitable conditions, simulations predict that self-compression down to single-cycle duration is possible.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Group-velocity dispersion of a circular glass nanowire in air for core diameters of 200 nm, 400 nm, 600 nm, and 800 nm.

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Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. Group-velocity dispersion of 800-nm and 1-μm diameter glass rods in air appropriate for compression of an 800-nm center wavelength input pulse.

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Fig. 3. Theoretically predicted (a) temporal and (b) spectral evolution of a 500-pJ and initially 30-fs Gaussian pulse undergoing soliton-effect compression in a 800-nm core diameter photonic nanowire at propagation distances of 501 μm, 582 μm, and 650 μm. (c) Spectrogram representation of the pulse at each of the corresponding propagation distances. (1.54 MB)

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Fig. 4. Peak intensity of 250-pJ, 375-pJ, 500-pJ, and 750-pJ pulses as a function of propagation distance inside an 800-nm core diameter photonic nanowire.

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Fig. 5. (a) Optical microscope image of 660-nm and 980-nm core diameter photonic nanowires with 2-mm lengths mounted on a 1-mm metal ridge. (b) Supercontinuum generated in a 2-mm long photonic nanowire.

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Fig. 6. Measured and simulated spectral evolution of supercontinuum generated as functions of average power of the mode-locked laser before the coupling objective (experiment) and inside the nanowire (simulation).

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Fig. 7.
Fig. 7. (a) Measured, retrieved, and simulated XFROG spectrogram of the compressed pulse exiting the nanowire. (b) Retrieved pulse shape and spectrum from the XFROG measurement.

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z opt L D = 0.32 N + 1.1 N 2 ,
F c = T in T comp ,
Q c = P comp F c ,
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