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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688829
