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Striving for extreme solitons

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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.

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Fig. 1: Principle of soliton compression in a gas-filled HCF.
Fig. 2: The soliton in nonlinear fibre propagation.

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