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The possibility of generating a terahertz spectral supercontinuum in the regime of the optical rectification of a femtosecond optical pulse is predicted. The transient and asymptotic stages of generation are distinguished. The supercontinuum consists of the soliton and nonsoliton components of a terahertz signal at the asymptotic stage. It is shown that the formation of supercontinuums is accompanied by a redshift of the median of the opticalpulse spectrum.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Bugai, S.V. Sazonov, 2008, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 87, No. 8, pp. 470–476.
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Bugai, A.N., Sazonov, S.V. Generation of a terahertz supercontinuum by the self-scattering of a femtosecond pulse in the optical-rectification regime. Jetp Lett. 87, 403–408 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364008080031
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