Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres for gas-based nonlinear optics
- Russell, P. St. J.
- Holzer, P
- Chang, Wonkeun
- Abdolvand, A.
- Travers, J C
DOIAbstract
Unlike the capillaries conventionally used for gas-based spectral broadening of ultrashort (<100 fs) multi-millijoule pulses, which produce only normal dispersion at usable pressure levels, hollow-core photonic crystal fibres provide pressure-adjustable normal or anomalous dispersion. They also permit low-loss guidance in a hollow channel that is about ten times narrower and has a 100-fold-higher effective nonlinearity than capillary-based systems. This has led to several dramatic results, including soliton compression to few-cycle pulses, widely tunable deep-ultraviolet light sources, novel soliton-plasma interactions and multi-octave Raman frequency combs. A new generation of versatile and efficient gas-based light sources, which are tuna...
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