Raman effect in the spectral broadening of ultrashort laser pulses in saturated versus unsaturated hydrocarbon molecules.

A conventional hollow core fiber (HCF) scheme is implemented to investigate spectral broadening of Titanium:Sapphire (Ti-Sa) femtosecond laser pulses in saturated hydrocarbon molecules compared to unsaturated ones. While the saturated molecules exhibit a spectral broadening similar to noble gases, for the unsaturated ones with π bonds, broadening towards blue is restrained. Numerical simulations underpin that it is a combination of group velocity dispersion (GVD) and Raman scattering which limits the spectral broadening for the unsaturated molecules.

Semimetallization of dielectrics in strong optical fields.

At the heart of ever growing demands for faster signal processing is ultrafast charge transport and control by electromagnetic fields in semiconductors. Intense optical fields have opened fascinating avenues for new phenomena and applications in solids. Because the period of optical fields is on the order of a femtosecond, the current switching and its control by an optical field may pave a way to petahertz optoelectronic devices.

An autocorrelator based on a Fabry-Perot interferometer.

An autocorrelator based on a Fabry-Perot interferometer is proposed for ultrashort pulse measurement. Main features of this autocorrelator due to the superposition of multiple pulses were investigated experimentally and theoretically. It turns out that the signal from a Fabry-Perot interferometer can be used as an autocorrelator signal.