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Chirped-pulse four-wave Raman mixing in molecular hydrogen

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Four-wave Raman mixing (FWRM) in molecular hydrogen was studied using chirped pump and Stokes pulses emitting at 802 and 1,203 nm, respectively. The group delay dispersion (GDD) of the anti-Stokes pulse was examined employing a frequency-resolved optical gating system at different GDDs of the pump and Stokes pulses (0 or ±1,000 fs2). As a result, the energy and the sign of GDD for the anti-Stokes pulse remained unchanged, when the pump and Stokes pulses had the GDD with the same sign. When the sign was not the same, the energy decreased and only the portion useful for resonant FWRM was converted into a Raman emission. This technique has a potential for use in compensation of dispersion by passing the negatively chirped high-order Raman sidebands through the optics with positive chirps in the spectral region from the deep-ultraviolet to the near-infrared, to generate multiple transform-limited Raman pulses and then to produce an ultrashort optical pulse by a Fourier synthesis of these Raman emissions.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for the Global COE program, “Science for Future Molecular Systems” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant Number 23245017 and 26220804. This study was also supported by the Steel Industry Foundation for the Advancement of Environmental Protection Technology.

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  1. Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Osamu Shitamichi, Yuichiro Kida & Totaro Imasaka

  2. Division of Optoelectronics and Photonics, Center for Future Chemistry, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Totaro Imasaka

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Shitamichi, O., Kida, Y. & Imasaka, T. Chirped-pulse four-wave Raman mixing in molecular hydrogen. Appl. Phys. B 117, 723–730 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5887-x

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