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Soliton-effect compression of supercontinuum to few-cycle durations in photonic nanowires

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By exploiting the broad region of anomalous group-velocity dispersion and the large e.ective nonlinearity of photonic nanowires, soliton-e.ect self-compression of 70-fs pulses down to 6.8 fs is demonstrated.
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By exploiting the broad region of anomalous group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and the large effective nonlinearity of photonic nanowires, we demonstrate soliton-effect self-compression of 70-fs pulses down to 6.8 fs. Under suitable conditions, simulations predict that self-compression down to single-cycle duration is possible.

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Method and apparatus for efficient direct generation and delivery of ultrashort laser pulses

TL;DR: In this paper, a method and apparatus for the direct generation and efficient non-dispersive delivery of broadband few-cycle femtosecond laser pulses by temporal solitonic compression of low-energy ultrashort laser pulses in nonlinear waveguides with constant (spatially independent) negative dispersion is described.
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Dynamics of harmonic generation in highly nonlinear silica nanowires

TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral amplitude dependence on pump pulse parameters and carrier envelope phase was investigated for non-phasematched third harmonic generation induced by few cycle pulses in highly nonlinear fused silica nanowires.
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Dispersion properties of silicon and silica photonic nanowires for nonlinear applications

TL;DR: In this article, the dispersion properties of air-clad and silica-coated silicon photonic wires for nonlinear applications are investigated with exact solutions of Maxwell's equations.
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Solitonic Self-Spectral Compression of Noisy Supercontinuum Radiation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate self-spectral compression for noisy supercontinuum radiation in a single-mode fiber and show the potential for nonlinear suppression for partially coherent pulses.
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Nonlinear Fiber Optics

TL;DR: The field of nonlinear fiber optics has advanced enough that a whole book was devoted to it as discussed by the authors, which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian languages, attesting to the worldwide activity in the field.
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Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical waveguiding

TL;DR: In this article, a two-step process is described to generate a micrometer sized diameter silica preform fiber, and then the preform is drawn while coupled to a support element to form a nanometer sized diameter fiber.
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Nanoribbon waveguides for subwavelength photonics integration.

TL;DR: The properties and functions of individual crystalline oxide nanoribbons that act as subwavelength optical waveguides are described and their applicability as nanoscale photonic elements are assessed.
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Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs

TL;DR: High-energy 20-fs pulses generated by a Ti:sapphire laser system were spectrally broadened to more than 250 nm by self-phase modulation in a hollow fiber filled with noble gases and subsequently compressed in a broadband high-throughput dispersive system, resulting in the shortest generated to date at multigigawatt peak powers.
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Carrier-envelope offset phase control: A novel concept for absolute optical frequency measurement and ultrashort pulse generation

TL;DR: In this paper, the carrier-envelope offset (CEO) phase was measured and stabilised with sub-femtosecond uncertainty in a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser.
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