Few-optical-cycle pulses: generation and applications

Giulio Cerullo; Mauro Nisoli; Sandro De Silvestri

doi:10.1117/12.525444

19 November 2003 Few-optical-cycle pulses: generation and applications

Giulio Cerullo, Mauro Nisoli, Sandro De Silvestri

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525444
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

We discuss two techniques for the generation of light pulses with a duration of just a few optical cycles. Non-collinear optical parametric amplification produces sub-10-fs pulses tunable in the visible, while spectral broadening in an hollow fiber allows to obtain intense 5-fs near infrared pulses. The visible pulses are applied to follow, in real time, the early events of energy relaxation processes in a variety of molecular systems. The near-infrared pulses interact in an highly nonlinear fashion with noble gases to produce high order harmonics extending to the soft x-ray spectral region.

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Giulio Cerullo, Mauro Nisoli, and Sandro De Silvestri "Few-optical-cycle pulses: generation and applications", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525444

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