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    • Ultrafast Lasers
    • Supercontinuum Generation

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    • Supercontinuum (SC) generation from intense ultrashort optical pulses relies on the interplay between material dispersion and nonlinearity.
    • Cubic nonlinearity is a primary mechanism, but can be enhanced by combining it with cascaded quadratic nonlinearity.
    • This enhancement can lower the required laser peak intensity for SC generation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate and compare SC generation using cubic nonlinearity versus cascaded quadratic nonlinearity.
    • To investigate SC generation at anomalous and zero dispersion wavelengths (ZDW).
    • To showcase filament-free SC generation of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing cascaded quadratic nonlinearity to enhance SC generation.
    • Comparing SC generation driven by cubic and cascaded quadratic nonlinearities.
    • Investigating SC generation at anomalous and zero dispersion wavelengths.

    Main Results:

    • Filament-free SC generation of femtosecond mid-infrared pulses was achieved using cascaded quadratic nonlinearity.
    • SC generation at ZDW required a lower threshold peak intensity compared to other methods.
    • Cascaded quadratic nonlinearity resulted in a higher power spectral density for newly generated spectral components.

    Conclusions:

    • Cascaded quadratic nonlinearity offers an effective route for SC generation, reducing the need for high peak intensity lasers.
    • The presented method facilitates the generation of multi-octave spectra from low peak-power, high average-power oscillators.
    • This approach is suitable as a seed for optical parametric amplifiers and multi-octave field synthesizers.