High-Power Supercontinuum generation with picosecond pulses

Author

Horak, Peter ; Chen, Kang Kang ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Dasgupta, Sonali ; Richardson, David J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We investigate both theoretically and experimentally the properties of supercontinuum generation in the near-infrared and visible regimes using high-power picosecond pulses propagating in a photonic crystal optical fiber. We discuss the effect of the pump wavelength relative to the fiber zero-dispersion wavelength on the conversion efficiency of pump power to shorter wavelengths. Finally, we consider picosecond supercontinuum generation in the presence of a mode cutoff when the pump is launched into a higher order fiber mode.

Keywords

holey fibres; light propagation; optical pulse generation; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; fiber zero-dispersion wavelength; high-power picosecond pulses propagating; high-power supercontinuum generation; near-infrared regimes; photonic crystal optical fiber; visible regimes; Fiber lasers; Numerical simulation; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical wavelength conversion; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; Supercontinuum generation; high power fiber lasers; photonic crystal fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7799-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7797-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549088

Filename

5549088