Influence of Initial Pulse Chirp on Rainbow-Like Supercontinuum Generation from Filamentation in Air

Chin. Phys. Lett.

2008, Vol. 25

Issue (4): 1365-1367 DOI:

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Influence of Initial Pulse Chirp on Rainbow-Like Supercontinuum Generation from Filamentation in Air

HAO Zuo-Qiang^1,2;ZHANG Jie^1,3,ZHANG Zhe¹;LU Xin¹;JIN Zhan¹;ZHONG
Jia-Yong¹;LIU Yun-Quan¹;WANG Zhao-Hua¹

¹Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics,Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080²Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Ionique et Moleculaire, UMR CNRS 5579, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43, Bd. du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France³Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240

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HAO Zuo-Qiang, ZHANG Jie, ZHANG Zhe et al 2008 Chin. Phys. Lett. 25 1365-1367

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Abstract Supercontinuum (SC) generation from laser filamentation in air is found
to depend strongly on the pulse duration. Rainbow-like SC generation is
observed only for a pulse of appropriate negative chirp that agrees
with the predictions put forward by Golubtsov it et al. [it Quantum Electron. 33 (2003) 525]. The conversion efficiency of an 800-nm laser light to rainbow-like SC is found to be the highest for 257fs pulses with an initial negative chirp. A larger chirp will lead to filamentation surviving at longer distance.

Keywords: 52.38.Hb 42.65.Jx 42.65.Ky

Received: 03 September 2007 Published: 31 March 2008

PACS:	52.38.Hb	(Self-focussing, channeling, and filamentation in plasmas)
	42.65.Jx	(Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; self-phase modulation)
	42.65.Ky	(Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation)

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