High-energy tunable ultraviolet pulses generated by optical leaky wave in filamentation
arXiv:2407.13173 · doi:10.1038/s42005-024-01910-4
Abstract
Ultraviolet pulses could open up new opportunities for the study of strong-field physics and ultrafast science. However, the existing methods for generating ultra-violet pulses face difficulties in fulfilling the twofold requirements of high energy and wavelength tunability simultaneously. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the generation of high-energy and wavelength tunable ultraviolet pulses in preformed air-plasma channels via the leaky wave emission. The output ultraviolet pulse has a tunable wavelength ranging from 250 nm to 430 nm and an energy level up to sub-mJ. An octave-spanning ultraviolet supercontinuum with a flatness better than 3 dB can also be obtained via longitudinally modulated dispersion. Such a high-energy tunable ultraviolet light source may provide promising opportunities for characterization of ultrafast phenomena such as molecular breakup, and also an important driving source for the generation of high-energy attosecond pulses.
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