Femtosecond nonlinear fiber optics in the ionization regime

Philipp Hölzer; W. Chang; J. C. Travers; A. Nazarkin; J. Nold; N. Y. Joly; Mohammed Fathy Saleh; F. Biancalana; P. St. J. Russell

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.203901

Femtosecond nonlinear fiber optics in the ionization regime

Philipp Hölzer, W. Chang, J. C. Travers, A. Nazarkin, J. Nold, N. Y. Joly, Mohammed Fathy Saleh, F. Biancalana, P. St. J. Russell

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By using a gas-filled kagome-style photonic crystal fiber, nonlinear fiber optics is studied in the regime of optically induced ionization. The fiber offers low anomalous dispersion over a broad bandwidth and low loss. Sequences of blueshifted pulses are emitted when 65 fs, few-microjoule pulses, corresponding to high-order solitons, are launched into the fiber and undergo self-compression. The experimental results are confirmed by numerical simulations which suggest that free-electron densities of similar to 10(17) cm(-3) are achieved at peak intensities of 10(14) W/cm(2) over length scales of several centimeters.

Original language	English
Article number	203901
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.203901
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2011

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