Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 6, Issue 5, 054402(2021)

Generating optical supercontinuum and frequency comb in tenuous plasmas

Kenan Qua) and Nathaniel J. Fisch
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  • Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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    Diagrams of (a) FRS and (b) FWM processes.
    (a) Tempo-spectral diagram of a short (T = 2π/ωp) laser pulse after propagation in plasma for 250 plasma wavelengths. The initial pulse includes components a49=a50=0.4e−(ζ/T)2. (b) Tempo-spectral diagram of the output of a long (T = 40π/ωp) laser pulse after propagation in plasma for 800 plasma wavelengths. The initial pulse includes components a49=a50=0.15e−(ζ/T)2. Note the difference in the vertical axis scales. The top panels show the spectral histograms for the whole pulse. The side panels show the temporal envelopes of the initial pulse (red curves) and the final pulse (gray shades). Their full-size envelope plots are shown in Figs. 5 and 6, respectively.
    Plasma wave amplitude at various locations ζ and pulse propagation distances τ. The parameters are the same as in Fig. 2(b).
    Amplitudes of virtual phonons |χk| at the pulse peak ζ/(cωp) = 1. The parameters are the same as in Fig. 2(a).
    (a) Input (red curve) and output (blue shade) pulse envelopes of a short laser pulse T = 2π/ωp. (b) Contour plot of the time–frequency synchrosqueezed transform. The parameters are the same as in Fig. 2(a).
    (a) Input (red curve) and output (blue shade) pulse envelopes of a short laser pulse T = 40π/ωp. (b) Contour plot of the time–frequency synchrosqueezed transform. The parameters are the same as in Fig. 2(b).
    PIC simulation results for a supercontinuum [(a) and (c)] generated from a short laser pulse in the FWM-dominated regime, and a frequency comb [(b) and (d)] generated from a long laser pulse in the FRS-dominated regime. In (a) and (b), the red curves show the initial pulse envelope, and the blue shade shows the output signal. (c) and (d) show the power spectral density (PSD) of the corresponding output signals.
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    Paper Information

    Category: Fundamental Physics At Extreme Light

    Received: Apr. 1, 2021

    Accepted: Jul. 10, 2021

    Published Online: Oct. 19, 2021

    The Author Email: Qu Kenan (kq@princeton.edu)

    DOI:10.1063/5.0052829

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