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Retiming dynamics of harmonically modelocked laser solitons in a self-driven optomechanical lattice
Xiaocong Wang, Benhai Wang, Wenbin He +6
Harmonic mode-locking, realized actively or passively, is an effective technique for increasing the repetition rate of lasers, with important applications in optical sampling, lase…
Optomagnetic forces on YIG/YFeO3 microspheres levitated in chiral hollow-core photonic crystal fibre
Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Ferdi Oda +9
We explore a magnetooptomechanical system consisting of a single magnetic microparticle optically levitated within the core of a helically twisted single-ring hollow-core photonic…
Valleytronics in bulk MoS by optical control of parity and time symmetries
Igor Tyulnev, Álvaro Jiménez-Galán, Julita Poborska +7
The valley degree of freedom of electrons in materials promises routes toward energy-efficient information storage with enticing prospects towards quantum information processing. C…
High-brightness seven-octave carrier envelope phase-stable light source
Ugaitz Elu, Luke Maidment, Lenard Vamos +8
High-brightness sources of coherent and few-cycle-duration light waveforms with spectral coverage from the UV to the THz would offer unprecedented versatility and opportunities for…
Dominance of backward stimulated Raman scattering in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers
Manoj K. Mridha, David Novoa, Philip St. J. Russell
Backward stimulated Raman scattering in gases provides a promising route to compression and amplification of a Stokes seed-pulse by counter-propagating against a pump-pulse, as has…
Flying Particle Microlaser and Temperature Sensor in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber
Richard Zeltner, Riccardo Pennetta, Shangran Xie +1
Whispering-gallery mode (WGM) resonators combine small optical mode volumes with narrow resonance linewidths, making them exciting platforms for a variety of applications. Here we…
Supramolecular transmission of soliton-encoded bit streams over astronomical distances
W. He, M. Pang, D. H. Yeh +3
A stream of optical pulses, transmitted over long distances in optical fiber, will be affected by a variety of noise sources, leading to degradation in the signal-to-noise ratio. T…
Continuously wavelength-tunable high harmonic generation via soliton dynamics
Francesco Tani, Michael H. Frosz, John C. Travers +1
We report generation of high harmonics in a gas-jet pumped by pulses self-compressed in a He-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber through the soliton effect. The gas-jet is pl…
PHz-wide spectral interference through coherent plasma-induced fission of higher-order solitons
F. Köttig, F. Tani, J. C. Travers +1
We identify a novel regime of soliton-plasma interactions in which high-intensity ultrashort pulses of intermediate soliton order undergo coherent plasma-induced fission. Experimen…
Broadband, Lensless and Optomechanically Stabilised Coupling into Microfluidic Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Using Glass Nanospike
Richard Zeltner, Shangran Xie, Riccardo Pennetta +1
We report a novel technique for launching broadband laser light into liquid-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF). It uniquely offers self-alignment and self-stabiliza…
Generation of a VUV-to-visible Raman frequency comb in hydrogen-filled kagomé photonic crystal fiber
M. K. Mridha, D. Novoa, S. T. Bauerschmidt +2
We report the generation of a purely vibrational Raman comb, extending from the vacuum ultraviolet (184 nm) to the visible (478 nm), in hydrogen-filled kagomé-style photonic crysta…
Generation of Spectral Clusters in a Mixture of Noble and Raman-Active Gases
Pooria Hosseini, Amir Abdolvand, Philip St. J. Russell
We report a novel scheme for the generation of dense clusters of Raman sidebands. The scheme uses a broadband-guiding hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) filled with a mixt…
Broad-band robustly single-mode hollow-core PCF by resonant filtering of higher order modes
Mehmet C. Günendi, Patrick Uebel, Michael H. Frosz +1
We propose and theoretically analyse a novel hollow-core photonic crystal fibre (PCF) that is engineered so as to strongly suppress higher order modes, i.e., to provide robust LP$_…
Dramatic Raman Gain Suppression in the Vicinity of the Zero Dispersion Point in Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber
Sebastian T. Bauerschmidt, David Novoa, Philip St. J. Russell
In 1964 Bloembergen and Shen predicted that Raman gain could be suppressed if the rates of phonon creation and annihilation (by inelastic scattering) exactly balance. This is only…
Raman-free, noble-gas-filled PCF source for ultrafast, very bright twin-beam squeezed vacuum
Martin A. Finger, Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Nicolas Y. Joly +2
We report a novel source of twin beams based on modulational instability in high-pressure argon-filled hollow-core kagomé-style photonic-crystal fibre. The source is Raman-free and…
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with 9-eV photon-energy pulses generated in a gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
H. Bromberger, A. Ermolov, F. Belli +10
A recently developed source of ultraviolet radiation, based on optical soliton propagation in a gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber, is applied here to angle-resolved pho…
Near-ionization-threshold emission in atomic gases driven by intense sub-cycle pulses
Wei-Chun Chu, John C. Travers, Philip St. J. Russell
We study theoretically the dipole radiation of a hydrogen atom driven by an intense sub-cycle pulse. The time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the system is solved by ab initio c…
An ion trap built with photonic crystal fibre technology
F. Lindenfelser, B. Keitch, D. Kienzler +5
We demonstrate a surface-electrode ion trap fabricated using techniques transferred from the manufacture of photonic-crystal fibres. This provides a relatively straightforward rout…
Atomic mercury vapor inside a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Ulrich Vogl, Christian Peuntinger, Nicolas Y. Joly +3
We demonstrate high atomic mercury vapor pressure in a kagomé-style hollow-core photonic crystal fiber at room temperature. After a few days of exposure to mercury vapor the fiber…
Damage-free single-mode transmission of deep-UV light in hollow-core PCF
F. Gebert, M. H. Frosz, T. Weiss +5
Transmission of UV light with high beam quality and pointing stability is desirable for many experiments in atomic, molecular and optical physics. In particular, laser cooling and…
Rydberg atoms in hollow-core photonic crystal fibres
G. Epple, K. S. Kleinbach, T. G. Euser +4
The exceptionally large polarisability of highly excited Rydberg atoms (six orders of magnitude higher than ground-state atoms) makes them of great interest in fields such as quant…
Nonlinear optics in Xe-filled hollow-core PCF in high pressure and supercritical regimes
M. Azhar, N. Y. Joly, J. C. Travers +1
Supercritical Xe at 293 K offers a Kerr nonlinearity that can exceed that of fused silica while being free of Raman scattering. It also has a much higher optical damage threshold a…
Efficient optical pumping and high optical depth in a hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre for a broadband quantum memory
Michael R. Sprague, Duncan G. England, Amir Abdolvand +9
The generation of large multiphoton quantum states - for applications in computing, metrology, and simulation - requires a network of high-efficiency quantum memories capable of st…
Ionization-induced asymmetric self-phase modulation and universal modulational instability in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers
Mohammed F. Saleh, Wonkeun Chang, John C. Travers +2
We study theoretically the propagation of relatively long pulses with ionizing intensities in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber filled with a Raman-inactive gas. Due to photoion…