Wide-band coherent supercontinuum generation

We have studied the broadband mid-IR supercontinuum generation in a lead-silicate tapered microstructured fiber for femto-second input pulses at 1550 nm. The supercontinuum generated extends from ~1000 to ~ 5000 nm for a suitably designed tapered fiber. The coherence properties of the supercontinuum depends on the input pulse parameters. It is possible to generate perfectly coherent supercontinuum with a flat broadened spectrum extending to ~5000 nm in this fiber taper.

[1]  P. M. Duffieux.  Fundamental amplitude noise limitations to supercontinuum spectra generated in a microstructured fiber , 2003 .

[2]  Thibaut Sylvestre,et al.  Tailoring CW supercontinuum generation in microstructured fibers with two-zero dispersion wavelengths. , 2007, Optics express.

[3]  J. Dudley,et al.  Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber , 2006 .

[4]  John M Dudley,et al.  Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers. , 2002, Optics letters.

[5]  Jari Turunen,et al.  Complete characterization of supercontinuum coherence , 2011 .

[6]  Niloy K. Dutta,et al.  An efficient method for supercontinuum generation in dispersion-tailored Lead-silicate fiber taper , 2010 .

[7]  Robert R. Alfano,et al.  Spectral, temporal, and coherence properties of supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber , 2005 .

[8]  H. Giessen,et al.  Coherence of subsequent supercontinuum pulses generated in tapered fibers in the femtosecond regime. , 2007, Optics express.

[9]  Rick Trebino,et al.  Experimental studies of the coherence of microstructure-fiber supercontinuum. , 2003, Optics express.

[10]  Anatoly Efimov,et al.  Coherent mid-infrared broadband continuum generation in non-uniform ZBLAN fiber taper. , 2009, Optics express.

[11]  R. Windeler,et al.  Noise amplification during supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber. , 2003, Optics letters.

[12]  Govind P. Agrawal,et al.  Nonlinear Fiber Optics , 1989 .

[13]  Jari Turunen,et al.  Second-order coherence of supercontinuum light. , 2010, Optics letters.

[14]  P. Petropoulos,et al.  Mid-IR Supercontinuum Generation From Nonsilica Microstructured Optical Fibers , 2007, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[15]  P. Petropoulos,et al.  High-nonlinearity dispersion-shifted lead-silicate holey fibers for efficient 1-/spl mu/m pumped supercontinuum generation , 2006, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[16]  Eiji Yoshida,et al.  Coherence Degradation in the Process of Supercontinuum Generation in an Optical Fiber , 1998 .

[17]  S. Friberg,et al.  Nonlinear optical glasses for ultrafast optical switches , 1987 .

[18]  S. Kobtsev,et al.  Coherent properties of super-continuum containing clearly defined solitons. , 2006, Optics express.

[19]  John M. Dudley,et al.  Numerical simulations and coherence properties of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers , 2002 .