TY - JOUR

T1 - Single-cycle pulse compression in dense resonant media

AU - Arkhipov, Rostislav

AU - Arkhipov, Mikhail

AU - Demircan, Ayhan

AU - Morgner, Uwe

AU - Babushkin, Ihar

AU - Rosanov, Nikolay

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement.

PY - 2021/3/16

Y1 - 2021/3/16

N2 - We propose here a new approach for compression and frequency up-conversion of short optical pulses in the regime of extreme nonlinear optics in optically dense absorbing media, providing an alternative route to attosecond-scale pulses at high frequencies. This method is based on dynamics of self-induced transparency (SIT) pulses of nearly single cycle duration, leading to single-cycle-scale Rabi oscillations in the medium. The sub-cycle components of an incident pulse behave as separate SIT-pulses, approaching each other and self-compressing, resulting in the threefold compression in time and frequency up-conversion by the same factor. As we show, the scheme can be cascaded, staying at the subsequent stage with nearly the same compression and up-conversion ratio. In this way, as our simulations show, after only few micrometers of propagation, a 700 nm wavelength single cycle pulse can be compressed to a pulse of 200 attoseconds duration located in XUV frequency range.

AB - We propose here a new approach for compression and frequency up-conversion of short optical pulses in the regime of extreme nonlinear optics in optically dense absorbing media, providing an alternative route to attosecond-scale pulses at high frequencies. This method is based on dynamics of self-induced transparency (SIT) pulses of nearly single cycle duration, leading to single-cycle-scale Rabi oscillations in the medium. The sub-cycle components of an incident pulse behave as separate SIT-pulses, approaching each other and self-compressing, resulting in the threefold compression in time and frequency up-conversion by the same factor. As we show, the scheme can be cascaded, staying at the subsequent stage with nearly the same compression and up-conversion ratio. In this way, as our simulations show, after only few micrometers of propagation, a 700 nm wavelength single cycle pulse can be compressed to a pulse of 200 attoseconds duration located in XUV frequency range.

KW - SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY

KW - DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS

KW - SUBCYCLE

KW - PROPAGATION

KW - GENERATION

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102659484&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1364/OE.419862

DO - 10.1364/OE.419862

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85102659484

VL - 29

SP - 10134

EP - 10139

JO - Optics Express

JF - Optics Express

SN - 1094-4087

IS - 7

ER -