Abstract
We report measurements of the extinction ratio (ER) of white light generated upon irradiation of BK7 glass by ultrashort laser pulses with incident power times larger than the critical power for self-focusing. At low incident powers, the continuum is symmetric about the incident laser wavelength; at high powers it becomes broader and distinctly asymmetric towards the blue side. We observe that ER degrades by 100-fold after the onset of multiphoton-induced free-electron generation (at incident intensity ), which also corresponds to the onset of asymmetry in white-light spectra.
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