• DocumentCode
    1772495
  • Title

    A two-octave broadband quasi-continuous mid-infrared supercontinuum generated in a chalcogenide glass waveguide

  • Author

    Yi Yu ; Xin Gai ; Pan Ma ; Zhiyong Yang ; Rongping Wang ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Madden, Steve ; Debbarma, Sanjoy ; Luther-Davies, Barry

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We have produced a stable 10mW, mid-infrared supercontinuum spanning the full functional group band from 1750nm to >7000nm spanning using a 1cm long chalcogenide waveguide pumped by a 20MHz train of 320fs pulses at 4μm.
  • Keywords
    chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical glass; optical pumping; optical waveguides; supercontinuum generation; chalcogenide glass waveguide; optical pumping; spanning; time 320 fs; two-octave broadband quasicontinuous midinfrared supercontinuum generation; wavelength 4 mum; Absorption; Glass; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6990121