DocumentCode
1770471
Title
Highly-efficient mid-IR supercontinuum generation in ZBLAN fiber pumped by thulium-doped fiber amplifier
Author
Jiang Liu ; Kun Liu ; Hongxing Shi ; Fangzhou Tan ; Yijian Jiang ; Pu Wang
Author_Institution
Inst. of Laser Eng., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China
fYear
2014
fDate
8-13 June 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Mid-infrared supercontinuum of 8.1 W with optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of ~76% with respect to the launched pump power at 2 μm wavelength was demonstrated in a ZBLAN fiber pumped by a thulium-doped all-fiber amplifier.
Keywords
aluminium compounds; barium compounds; lanthanum compounds; laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; sodium compounds; supercontinuum generation; thulium; zirconium compounds; ZBLAN; ZBLAN fiber; highly-efficient mid-IR supercontinuum generation; launched pump power; mid-infrared supercontinuum; optical-to-optical conversion efficiency; power 8.1 W; thulium-doped all-fiber amplifier; wavelength 2 mum; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power generation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6988932
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