Abstract

Few-cycle, long-wavelength sources for generating isolated attosecond soft x ray pulses typically rely upon complex laser architectures. Here, we demonstrate a comparatively simple setup for generating sub-two-cycle pulses in the short-wave infrared based on multidimensional solitary states in an N₂O-filled hollow-core fiber and a two-channel light-field synthesizer. Due to the temporal phase imprinted by the rotational nonlinearity of the molecular gas, the redshifted (from 1.03 to 1.36 µm central wavelength) supercontinuum pulses generated from a Yb-doped laser amplifier are compressed from 280 to 7 fs using only bulk materials for dispersion compensation.

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