Cascaded soliton self-compression and mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in χ(2)-structured KTP and KTA
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Viotti, Anne-Lise; Lindberg, Robert; Laurell, Fredrik; Pasiskevicius, Valdas
- Source
- 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2017 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2017
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Dispersion
Mathematical model
Numerical models
Supercontinuum generation
Crystals
Solitons
- Language
Periodically poled KTP and KTA were numerically investigated for nonlinear pulse compression in the normal and anomalous dispersion regimes using cascaded χ (2) interactions. The generation of sub-10 fs octave-spanning supercontinuum pulses is shown.