Generation of high-intensity spectral supercontinuum of more than two octaves in a water jet

A N Tcypkin; S E Putilin; M V Melnik; E A Makarov; V G Bespalov; S A Kozlov

doi:10.1364/AO.55.008390

Generation of high-intensity spectral supercontinuum of more than two octaves in a water jet

Appl Opt. 2016 Oct 10;55(29):8390-8394. doi: 10.1364/AO.55.008390.

Authors

A N Tcypkin, S E Putilin, M V Melnik, E A Makarov, V G Bespalov, S A Kozlov

PMID: 27828091
DOI: 10.1364/AO.55.008390

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate experimentally for the first time (to our knowledge) the generation of spectral supercontinuum (SC) of more than two octaves with high intensity in a water jet. The spectrum of the generated SC extends from 350 to 1400 nm, with intensities up to 10¹¹ W/cm², and its generation efficiency is more than 50%. For the pump intensity 3.0×10¹² W/cm² in the spectral range from 400 to 800 nm, the spectrum is nearly flat (less than 40% deviation), which is useful for many applications.