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Frequency-shifted solitons in a highly nonlinear photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) are shown to give rise to high-visibility interference fringes in PCF output spectra, indicating flat spectral phase profiles of individual solitons in the PCF output (Fig. 59.1). This experimental finding, supported by numerical simulations, suggests a promising method of fiber-format pulse shaping and an attractive technology for few-cycle pulse synthesis through a coherent addition of frequency-shifted solitons generated in a highly nonlinear fiber [1].
Coupling ultrashort optical field waveforms to ultrafast molecular vibrations in an impulsively excited Raman medium is shown to enable the generation of frequency-tunable sub-half-cycle multigigawatt light pulses. In a gas-filled hollow waveguide, this coupled-state dynamics is strongly assisted by soliton effects, which help to suppress temporal stretching of subcycle optical pulses, providing efficient Raman-type impulsive excitation of ultrafast molecular vibrations over large propagation paths [2].
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Voronin AA, Fedotov IV, Fedotov AB, Zheltikov AM (2009) Spectral interference of frequency-shifted solitons in a photonic-crystal fiber. Opt Lett 34:569
Zheltikov AM, Voronin AA, Kienberger R, Krausz F, Korn G (2010) Frequency-tunable multigigawatt sub-half-cycle light pulses from coupled-state dynamics of optical solitons and impulsively driven molecular vibrations. Phys Rev Lett 105:103901
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Voronin, A.A., Fedotov, I.V., Fedotov, A.B., Zheltikov, A.M. (2013). Photonic-Crystal Fiber Synthesizers of Ultrafast Lightwaves. In: Di Bartolo, B., Collins, J. (eds) Nano-Optics for Enhancing Light-Matter Interactions on a Molecular Scale. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5313-6_59
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