11-fs dark pulses generated via coherent absorption in plasmonic metamaterial

We demonstrate generation of the shortest reported 11fs dark pulses using the coherent absorption process on a plasmonic absorber with a gating pulse. The dark pulses appear as a power dip on the envelope of a long carrier pulse and are characterized using the cross-correlation technique. The princi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nalla, Venkatram, Valente, João, Sun, Handong, Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85453
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43706
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Summary:We demonstrate generation of the shortest reported 11fs dark pulses using the coherent absorption process on a plasmonic absorber with a gating pulse. The dark pulses appear as a power dip on the envelope of a long carrier pulse and are characterized using the cross-correlation technique. The principal difference and advantage of our approach in comparison with previously developed laser sources of dark pulses is that, in principle, it allows transferring arbitrary pattern of bright pulses into a pattern of dark pulses in another optical signal channel.