Solitary beam propagation in periodic layered Kerr media enables high-efficiency pulse compression and mode self-cleaning

Abstract Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high-quality spatial modes is crucial for ultrafast and strong-field science and can be achieved by nonlinear supercontinuum generation (SCG) and pulse compression. In this work, we propose that the generation of quasi-stationary solitons in periodi...

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Main Authors: Sheng Zhang, Zongyuan Fu, Bingbing Zhu, Guangyu Fan, Yudong Chen, Shunjia Wang, Yaxin Liu, Andrius Baltuska, Cheng Jin, Chuanshan Tian, Zhensheng Tao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Light: Science & Applications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-021-00495-9