Generation of three-octave-spanning transient Raman comb in hydrogen-filled hollow-core PCF

Opt Lett. 2015 Mar 15;40(6):1026-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001026.

Abstract

A noise-seeded transient comb of Raman sidebands spanning three octaves from 180 to 2400 nm, is generated by pumping a hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber with 26-μJ, 300-fs pulses at 800 nm. The pump pulses are spectrally broadened by both Kerr and Raman-related self-phase modulation (SPM), and the broadening is then transferred to the Raman lines. In spite of the high intensity, and in contrast to bulk gas-cell based experiments, neither SPM broadening nor ionization are detrimental to comb formation.