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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA