• DocumentCode
    1770764
  • Title

    Octave-spanning Mid-IR supercontinuum generation with ultrafast cascaded nonlinearities

  • Author

    Binbin Zhou ; Hairun Guo ; Xing Liu ; Bache, Morten

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    An octave-spanning mid-IR supercontinuum is observed experimentally using ultrafast cascaded nonlinearities in an LiInS2 quadratic nonlinear crystal pumped with 70 fs energetic mid-IR pulses and cut for strongly phase-mismatched second-harmonic generation.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical phase matching; supercontinuum generation; LiInS2; LiInS2 quadratic nonlinear crystal; energetic mid-IR pulses; octave-spanning mid-IR supercontinuum generation; strongly phase-mismatched second-harmonic generation; time 70 fs; ultrafast cascaded nonlinearities; Crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989088