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most citedDirect Observationof DegenerateTwo-Photon Absorption and Its Saturation in WS2 and MoS2 Monolayer and Few-Layer Films

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physics.optics2021★ 34 cited

A multistep pulse compressor for 10s to 100s PW lasers

Jun Liu, Xiong Shen, Shuman Du +1

High-energy tens (10s) to hundreds (100s) petawatt (PW) lasers are key tools for exploring frontier fundamental researches such as strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED), and t…

physics.optics2020★ 39 cited

Polygon Coherent Modes in aWeakly Perturbed Whispering Gallery Microresonator for Efficient Second Harmonic, Optomechanic and Frequency Comb Generations

Zhiwei Fang, Sanaul Haque, Farajollahi Saeed +8

We observe high optical quality factor (Q) polygonal and star coherent optical modes in a lithium niobate microdisk. In contrast to the previous polygon modes achieved by deformed…

physics.optics2020★ 58 cited

Efficient light coupling between an ultra-low loss lithium niobate waveguide and an adiabatically tapered single mode optical fiber

Ni Yao, Junxia Zhou, Renhong Gao +5

A lithium niobate on insulator ridge waveguide allows constructing high-density photonic integrated circuits thanks to its small bending radius offered by the high index contrast.…

physics.optics2019★ 26 cited

Extreme nonlinear Raman interaction of an ultrashort nitrogen ion laser with an impulsively excited molecular wavepacket

Zhaoxiang Liu, Jinping Yao, Haisu Zhang +8

We report generation of cascaded rotational Raman scattering up to 58th orders in coherently excited CO_2 molecules. The high-order Raman scattering, which produces a quasiperiodic…

physics.optics2019★ 32 cited

Efficient Electro-optical Tuning of Optical Frequency Microcomb on a Monolithically Integrated High-Q Lithium Niobate Microdisk

Zhiwei Fang, Haipeng Luo, Jintian Lin +7

We demonstrate efficient tuning of a monolithically integrated lithium niobate microdisk (LN) optical frequency microcomb. Utilizing the high optical quality (Q) factor (i.e., Q~7.…

physics.optics2018★ 65 cited

Polarization-insensitive space-selective etching in fused silica induced by picosecond laser irradiation

Xiaolong Li, Jian Xu, Zijie Lin +7

It is well known that when the fused silica is irradiated with focused femtosecond laser beams, space selective chemical etching can be achieved. The etching rate depends sensitive…

physics.optics2018★ 15 cited

A photonic crystal-based broadband graphene saturable absorber

Caoran Shen, Saifeng Zhang, Ivan M. Kislyakov +6

The enhanced nonlinear optical response of a one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal (PC) made from polymers and graphene composites is observed. The graphene PC was fabricated by sp…

physics.optics2018★ 11 cited

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in dispersed graphene

Ivan M. Kislyakov, Jean-Michel Nunzi, Xiaoyan Zhang +3

We address the problem of the interaction of powerful laser radiation with a transparent substance containing a low concentration of strongly absorbing nanoparticles under the cond…

physics.optics2018★ 19 cited

Aberration-free three dimensional micromachining in glass with spatiotemporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses

Peng Wang, Wei Chu, Wenbo Li +5

We observe that focusing a femtosecond laser beam simultaneously chirped in time and space domains in glass can efficiently suppress the optical aberration caused by the refractive…

physics.optics2017★ 55 cited

2.6mJ/100Hz CEP stable near-single-cycle 4μm laser based on OPCPA and hollow-core-fiber compression

Pengfei Wang, Yanyan Li, Wenkai Li +10

A carrier envelope phase stable near-single cycle mid-infrared laser based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification and hollow-core-fiber compression is demonstrated. 4 μm…

physics.optics2017★ 41 cited

Near-resonant Raman amplification in the rotational quantum wavepackets of nitrogen molecular ions generated by strong field ionization

Zhaoxiang Liu, Jinping Yao, Jinming Chen +3

Generation of laser-like narrow bandwidth emissions from nitrogen molecular ions generated in intense near- and mid-infrared femtosecond laser fields has aroused much interest beca…

physics.optics2017★ 7 cited

Intense keV isolated attosecond pulse generation by orthogonally polarized multicycle midinfrared two-color laser field

Guicun Li, Yinghui Zheng, Zhinan Zeng +1

We theoretically investigate the generation of intense keV attosecond pulses in an orthogonally polarized multicycle midinfrared two-color laser field. It is demonstrated that mult…

physics.optics2016★ 6 cited

Compact transient-grating self-referenced spectral interferometry for sub-nanojoule femtosecond pulses characterization

Xiong Shen, Peng Wang, Jun Liu +1

The self-referenced spectral interferometry (SRSI) technique, which is usually used for microjoule-level femtosecond pulses characterization, is improved to characterize weak femto…

physics.optics2016

Electron motion enhanced high harmonic generation in xenon clusters

Na Li, Peng Liu, Ya Bai +3

Atomic clusters presents an isolated system that models the bulk materials whose mechanism of HHG remains uncertain, and a promising medium to produce HHG beyond the limited conver…

physics.optics2016★ 4 cited

Fabrication of polarization-independent single-mode waveguides in lithium niobate crystal with femtosecond laser pulses

Jia Qi, Peng Wang, Yang Liao +5

We report on fabrication of depressed cladding optical waveguides buried in lithium niobate crystal with shaped femtosecond laser pulses. Depressed cladding waveguides of variable…

physics.optics2016★ 54 cited

Generation of nonlinear vortex precursors

Yue-Yue Chen, Xun-Li Feng, Chengpu Liu

We numerically study the propagation of a few-cycle pulse carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) through a dense atomic system. Nonlinear precursors consisting of high-order vorte…

physics.optics2015

Generation of elliptically polarized nitrogen-ion laser fields using two-color femtosecond laser pulses

Ziting Li, Bin Zeng, Wei Chu +6

We experimentally investigate generation of molecular nitrogen-ion lasers with two femtosecond laser pulses at different wavelengths. The first pulse serves as the pump which ioniz…

physics.optics2015★ 20 cited

Time-resolved shadowgraphs of transient plasma induced by spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses in fused silica glass

Zhaohui Wang, Bin Zeng, Guihua Li +7

We report on experimental observations of formation and evolution of transient plasma produced in fused silica glass with spatiotemporally focused (STF) femtosecond laser pulses us…

physics.optics2015★ 10 cited

Fabrication of a microresonator-fiber assembly maintaining a high-quality factor by CO2 laser welding

Zhiwei Fang, Jintian Lin, Min Wang +4

We demonstrate fabrication of a microtoroid resonator of a high-quality (high-Q) factor using femtosecond laser three-dimensional (3D) micromachining. A fiber taper is reliably ass…

physics.optics2015★ 43 cited

Direct observation of laser guided corona discharges

Tie-Jun Wang, Yingxia Wei, Yaoxiang Liu +10

Laser based lightning control holds a promising way to solve the problem of the long standing disaster of lightning strikes. But it is a challenging project due to insufficient und…

physics.optics2015★ 57 cited

Formation of in-volume nanogratings with sub-100 nm periods in glass by femtosecond laser irradiation

Yang Liao, Wangjun Pan, Yun Cui +4

We present direct experimental observation of the morphological evolution during the formation of nanogratings with sub-100-nm periods with the increasing number of pulses. Theoret…

physics.optics2015★ 175 cited

Population Redistribution among Multiple Electronic States of Molecular Nitrogen Ions in Strong Laser Fields

Jinping Yao, Shicheng Jiang, Wei Chu +11

We carry out a combined theoretical and experimental investigation on the population distributions in the ground and excited states of tunnel ionized N2 molecules at various driver…

physics.optics2015★ 213 cited

Giant Two-Photon Absorption in Monolayer MoS2

Yuanxin Li, Ningning Dong, Saifeng Zhang +5

Strong two-photon absorption (TPA) in monolayer MoS2 is demonstrated in contrast to saturable absorption (SA) in multilayer MoS2 under the excitation of femtosecond laser pulses in…

physics.optics2015★ 410 cited

Direct Observationof DegenerateTwo-Photon Absorption and Its Saturation in WS2 and MoS2 Monolayer and Few-Layer Films

Saifeng Zhang, Ningning Dong, Niall McEvoy +10

The optical nonlinearity of WS2, MoS2 monolayer and few-layer films was investigated using the Z-scan technique with femtosecond pulses from the visible to the near infrared. The d…