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Abstract

This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the literature and up-to-date experimental results on supercontinuum generation in commonly used wide-bandgap dielectric materials: water, fused silica, alkali metal fluorides, and laser host crystals, achieved so far with a wide variety of pump wavelengths, ranging from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared, accessing the filamentation regimes under normal, zero, and anomalous GVD in these materials.

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