• openAccess   Diffractive optics for spectral control of the supercontinuum generated in sapphire with femtosecond pulses 

      Romero, Carolina; Borrego Varillas, Rocío; Camino, Acner; Mínguez-Vega, Gladys; Mendoza-Yero, Omel; Hernández Toro, Juan; Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R. Optical Society of America (2011)
      We propose the use of kinoform diffractive lenses to focus near infrared femtosecond pulses in sapphire crystals for supercontinuum generation. It is shown that a strongly peaked structure appears in the blue region of the ...
    • openAccess   Femtosecond filamentation in sapphire with diffractive lenses 

      Borrego Varillas, Rocío; Romero, Carolina; Mendoza-Yero, Omel; Mínguez-Vega, Gladys; Gallardo, I.; Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R. Optical Society of America (2013)
      In this paper, we demonstrate novel properties in the phenomenology of supercontinuum generation in sapphire with diffractive lenses and provide a complete spatial, spectral, and temporal characterization of the so-generated ...