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MID-INFRARED PHOTONICS

Broadband mid-infrared waveform generation

Coherent multi-octave mid-infrared waveforms are created and manipulated by cascaded intrapulse difference-frequency generation, demonstrating absolute phase control, and adding to the growing arsenal of techniques for arbitrary light-wave control.

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Fig. 1: Broadband waveform synthesis via cascaded intrapulse difference-frequency generation.

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Moses, J., Huang, SW. Broadband mid-infrared waveform generation. Nat. Photon. 16, 481–482 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01027-6

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