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Pump-depleting four-wave mixing in supercontinuum-generating microstructure fibers

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Four-wave mixing processes are shown to provide a high efficiency of non-linear optical frequency conversion and spectral transformation of ultrashort pulses in supercontinuum-generating microstructure fibers. Pump-depleting conversion of 800-nm radiation to the spectral range around 500 nm is achieved by phase-matching the parametric four-wave mixing process for 80-fs Ti:sapphire-laser pulses. The ways to use microstructure fibers for generating frequency-tunable radiation through four-wave mixing with the maximum efficiency of pump-field frequency conversion are discussed.

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  1. Physics Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia

    A.B. Fedotov, E.E. Serebryannikov & A.M. Zheltikov

  2. International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia

    A.B. Fedotov, D.A. Sidorov-Biryukov & A.M. Zheltikov

  3. International Laser Center, Ilkovicova 3, 81219, Bratislava, Slovakia

    I. Bugar, D. Chorvat Jr. & D. Chorvat

  4. Weapons Sciences Directorate, US Army Aviation and Missile Command, 35898–5000, Huntsville, AL, USA

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Fedotov, A., Bugar, I., Sidorov-Biryukov, D. et al. Pump-depleting four-wave mixing in supercontinuum-generating microstructure fibers. Appl Phys B 77, 313–317 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1206-7

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