Single-cycle pulse compression in dense resonant media
- verfasst von
- Rostislav Arkhipov, Mikhail Arkhipov, Ayhan Demircan, Uwe Morgner, Ihar Babushkin, Nikolay Rosanov
- Abstract
We propose here a new approach for compression and frequency up-conversion of short optical pulses in the regime of extreme nonlinear optics in optically dense absorbing media, providing an alternative route to attosecond-scale pulses at high frequencies. This method is based on dynamics of self-induced transparency (SIT) pulses of nearly single cycle duration, leading to single-cycle-scale Rabi oscillations in the medium. The sub-cycle components of an incident pulse behave as separate SIT-pulses, approaching each other and self-compressing, resulting in the threefold compression in time and frequency up-conversion by the same factor. As we show, the scheme can be cascaded, staying at the subsequent stage with nearly the same compression and up-conversion ratio. In this way, as our simulations show, after only few micrometers of propagation, a 700 nm wavelength single cycle pulse can be compressed to a pulse of 200 attoseconds duration located in XUV frequency range.
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Institut für Quantenoptik
PhoenixD: Simulation, Fabrikation und Anwendung optischer Systeme
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Staatliche Universität Sankt Petersburg
RAS - Ioffe Physico Technical Institute
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Optics express
- Band
- 29
- Seiten
- 10134-10139
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 6
- ISSN
- 1094-4087
- Publikationsdatum
- 29.03.2021
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Atom- und Molekularphysik sowie Optik
- Elektronische Version(en)
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https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.419862 (Zugang:
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