English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse
  1. View item / 
  2. Item Summary

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Journal Article

Seven-octave high-brightness and carrier-envelope-phase-stable light source

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons201209

Tani,  Francesco
Russell Emeritus Group, Emeritus Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Max Planck Society;

Novoa,  David
Russell Emeritus Group, Emeritus Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons201064

Frosz,  Michael H.
Fibre Fabrication and Glass Studio, Technology Development and Service Units, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons201171

Russell,  Philip St.J.
Russell Emeritus Group, Emeritus Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Max Planck Society;

External Resource

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-020-00735-1
(Publisher version)

Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Elu, U., Maidment, L., Vamos, L., Tani, F., Novoa, D., Frosz, M. H., et al. (2020). Seven-octave high-brightness and carrier-envelope-phase-stable light source. Nature Photonics, 15, 277-280. doi:10.1038/s41566-020-00735-1.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-D10E-C
Abstract
High-brightness sources of coherent and few-cycle-duration light waveforms with spectral coverage from the ultraviolet to the terahertz would offer unprecedented versatility and opportunities for a wide range of applications from bio-chemical sensing1 to time-resolved and nonlinear spectroscopy, and to attosecond light-wave electronics. Combinations of various sources with frequency conversion and supercontinuum generation can provide relatively large spectral coverage, but many applications require a much broader spectral range and low-jitter synchronization for time-domain measurements. Here, we present a carrier-envelope-phase (CEP)-stable light source, seeded by a mid-infrared frequency comb, with simultaneous spectral coverage across seven optical octaves, from the ultraviolet (340 nm) into the terahertz (40,000 nm). Combining soliton self-compression and dispersive wave generation in an anti-resonant-reflection photonic-crystal fibre with intra-pulse difference frequency generation in BaGa2GeSe6, the spectral brightness is two to five orders of magnitude above that of synchrotron sources. This will enable high-dynamic-range spectroscopies and provide numerous opportunities in attosecond physics and material sciences.