• DocumentCode
    1574519
  • Title

    Stimulated supercontinuum generation: Acceleration, stabilization and control

  • Author

    Solli, D.R. ; Ropers, C. ; Jalali, B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    733
  • Lastpage
    734
  • Abstract
    We introduce active control over supercontinuum generation by stimulating the generation process with a very weak optical seed pulse. We experimentally demonstrate that a weak stimulus dramatically increases the supercontinuum stability and coherence.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; supercontinuum generation; optical seed pulse; stimulated supercontinuum generation; supercontinuum coherence; supercontinuum stability; Acceleration; Coherence; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Supercontinuum generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Acapulco
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1931-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1932-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688829
  • Filename
    4688829