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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Optimal generation of single-dispersion precompensated 1-fs pulses by molecular phase modulation
Michael Spanner1, Misha Yu Ivanov
1Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OR6, Canada. michael.spanner@nrc.ca
Abstract:
We show how an optimal control approach can be combined with the pump-probe technique for pulse compression by molecular phase modulation in hollow-core fibers to generate single 1-fs pulses in the visible. Varying the intensity and duration of the Gaussian-shaped pump pulse at the input induces optimal rotational response of the molecules. The probe pulse, which scatters off of the resulting time variation of the refractive index, is shaped at the input for optimal compression at the output, including dispersion to all orders.
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