Broadband coherent light generation in a Raman-active crystal driven by two-color femtosecond laser pulses. Academic Article

abstract

• We demonstrate broadband light generation by focusing two-color ultrashort laser pulses into a Raman-active crystal, lead tungstate (PbWO(4)). As many as 20 anti-Stokes and 2 Stokes fields are generated due to strong near-resonant excitation of a Raman transition. The generated spectrum extends from the infrared, through the visible region, to the ultraviolet, and it consists of discrete spatially separated sidebands. Our measurements confirm good mutual spatial and temporal coherence among the generated fields and open possibilities for synthesis of subfemtosecond light waveforms.

authors

• Sokolov, Alexei

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Zhi, M., & Sokolov, A. V.

citation count

• 57

complete list of authors

• Zhi, Miaochan||Sokolov, Alexei V

publication date

• August 2007

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• Broadband Generation
• Femtosecond Laser Fields
• Raman Active Crystals

PubMed Central ID

• 17671600

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ol.32.002251

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2578

start page

• 2251

end page

• 2253

volume

• 32

issue

• 15

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.32.002251