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We explore the optical properties of a proposed solid-core photonic quasi-crystal fiber (SC-PQF) of 10-fold for the wavelengths from 300 to 1100 nm. The proposed SC-PQF exhibits a admissible low dispersion of −8.6481 ps2/km, a third order dispersion of 0.00415 ps3/km and a large nonlinearity of 1684 W−1 km−1 at 450 nm, which turn out to be the desired optical properties for generating the few-cycle laser pulses. By exploiting these optical properties, we numerically demonstrate the generation of few-cycle laser pulses at 450 nm wavelength by means of higher-order soliton effect compression.
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KSN wishes to thank CSIR [No: 03(1264)/12/EMR-11] for the financial support through the project.
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Aruna Gandhi, M.S., Melwin, G., Ramesh Babu, P., Abobaker, A.M., Nakkeeran, K., Senthilnathan, K. (2017). Generation of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses Using A Photonic Quasi-crystal Fiber. In: Ebenezar, J. (eds) Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44890-9_15
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