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Ultrashort laser pulses, featuring remarkable spectral tunability, are highly demanded for nonlinear light-matter interactions in a variety of molecules. Here, we report on the generation of soliton-plasma-driven ultrashort pulses with both bandwidth-and wavelength-tunability in the visible spectral region. Using He-filled single-ring photonic crystal fiber (SR-PCF), we demonstrate in the experiments that the spectral bandwidths of blueshifting solitons can be manipulated by adjusting the input pulse energy, gas pressure and core diameter of the SR-PCF, while the central wavelengths of these solitons can be continuously tuned over 200 nm. We found that in a large-core SR-PCF (24.6-mu m core diameter), the bandwidths of blueshifting solitons can be effectively broaden to near 100 nm, pointing out the possibility of generating few-cycle, wavelength-tunable visible pulses using this set-up. In addition, we observed in the experiments that in a small-core SR-PCF (with a core diameter of 17 mu m), the blueshifting solitons show little residual light near the pump wavelength, resulting in a high-efficiency frequency up-conversion process. These experimental results, confirmed by numerical simulations, pave the way to a new generation of compact, ultrashort light sources with excellent tunability at visible wavelengths, which may have many applications in the fields of time-resolved spectroscopy and ultrafast nonlinear optics. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement.
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OPTICS EXPRESS
ISSN: 1094-4087
年份: 2019
期: 21
卷: 27
页码: 30798-30809
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ESI学科: PHYSICS;
ESI高被引阀值:123
JCR分区:1