• 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