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    A nonlinear multi-pass cell is shown to be able to shift the central wavelength of a laser by tens of nanometres, offering a new means for control for high-power laser systems

    • Prannay Balla
    • , Henrik Tünnermann
    •  & Christoph M. Heyl

  • News & Views |

    Laser-like radiation with a very large spectral coverage is obtained with a comb-like spectrum by concatenating nonlinear processes. Such a light source is extremely useful for detecting molecular trace gases.

    • Akira Ozawa
    •  & Thomas Udem

  • Letter |

    Using a gas-filled anti-resonant-reflection photonic-crystal fibre, a high-brightness table-top source of coherent carrier-envelope-phase-stable waveforms is demonstrated across seven octaves (340 nm to 40,000 nm) with ultraviolet peak powers up to 2.5 MW and terahertz peak powers of 1.8 MW, without the need for changing nonlinear crystals.

    • Ugaitz Elu
    • , Luke Maidment
    •  & Jens Biegert

  • Comment |

    As a pioneer in the research on ultra-high-quality dielectric microresonators and their applications in nonlinear optics, frequency metrology and laser science, Mikhail Gorodetsky is badly missed.

    • Igor Bilenko
    • , Vladimir Ilchenko
    •  & Tobias J. Kippenberg

  • News & Views |

    Judicious scaling of the waveguide properties of a simple hollow capillary fibre filled with helium allows for powerful pulse temporal compression down to the sub-femtosecond level, further enabling the efficient generation of ultrafast ultraviolet light.

    • Benjamin Wetzel
    •  & Fetah Benabid

  • Article |

    Optical soliton dynamics in large-core hollow capillary fibres is demonstrated. The findings enable the scaling of soliton effects by several orders of magnitude to the multi-millijoule energy and terawatt peak power levels, and open up opportunities for new-generation table-top light sources for ultrafast strong-field physics and advanced spectroscopy.

    • John C. Travers
    • , Teodora F. Grigorova
    •  & Federico Belli

  • Editorial |

    Frequency combs measure optical frequencies with an unprecedented precision, allowing myriad applications in optical metrology, high-precision spectroscopy, optical atomic clocks, attosecond science, astronomy and, recently, quantum information processing.

  • Review Article |

    This Review discusses the developments and applications of on-chip optical frequency comb generation based on two concepts—supercontinuum generation in photonic-chip waveguides and Kerr-comb generation in microresonators.

    • Alexander L. Gaeta
    • , Michal Lipson
    •  & Tobias J. Kippenberg

  • Article |

    Circularly polarized isolated extreme-ultraviolet pulses are generated by exploiting non-collinear high- harmonic generation driven by two counter-rotating few-cycle laser beams. The numerical simulation predicts a linear chirp of 330 attoseconds.

    • Pei-Chi Huang
    • , Carlos Hernández-García
    •  & Ming-Chang Chen

  • Article |

    Isolated attosecond pulses (IAPs) in the extreme-ultraviolet range are generated by the interaction of half-cycle mid-infrared pulses with gas (Xe, Kr or Ar) and solid media (quartz). The energy of the IAPs is optically tunable over an octave.

    • T. J. Hammond
    • , Sylvain Monchocé
    •  & P. B. Corkum

  • Article |

    By driving a high-Q fibre-based Fabry–Pérot microresonator with periodic, picosecond optical pulses, deterministic generation of stable femtosecond dissipative cavity solitons has been experimentally realized.

    • Ewelina Obrzud
    • , Steve Lecomte
    •  & Tobias Herr

  • Article |

    Spatial beam clean-up and spatiotemporal modulation instability in graded-index multimode fibres are studied in a regime characterized by disorder, nonlinearity and dissipation.

    • Logan G. Wright
    • , Zhanwei Liu
    •  & Frank W. Wise

  • Letter |

    Scientists propose and experimentally demonstrate a new architecture for dual-comb spectroscopy based on all-fibre tunable frequency comb sources using standard telecommunication fibre optics components, opening the way for practical dual-comb spectroscopy.

    • Guy Millot
    • , Stéphane Pitois
    •  & Nathalie Picqué

  • News & Views |

    The finding that multimode optical fibres support a rich and complex mix of spatial and temporal nonlinear phenomena could yield a plethora of promising applications.

    • Antonio Picozzi
    • , Guy Millot
    •  & Stefan Wabnitz

  • Review Article |

    Curious wave phenomena that occur in optical fibres due to the interplay of instability and nonlinear effects are reviewed.

    • John M. Dudley
    • , Frédéric Dias
    •  & Goëry Genty

  • Letter |

    Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation with a record-breaking spectral coverage of 1.4–13.3 µm is demonstrated by launching intense ultra-short pulses into short pieces of ultra-high numerical aperture step-index chalcogenide glass optical fibre consisting of a GaAsSe cladding and an As2Se3 core.

    • Christian Rosenberg Petersen
    • , Uffe Møller
    •  & Ole Bang

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