Title :
A two-octave broadband quasi-continuous mid-infrared supercontinuum generated in a chalcogenide glass waveguide
Author :
Yi Yu ; Xin Gai ; Pan Ma ; Zhiyong Yang ; Rongping Wang ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Madden, Steve ; Debbarma, Sanjoy ; Luther-Davies, Barry
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
We have produced a stable 10mW, mid-infrared supercontinuum spanning the full functional group band from 1750nm to >7000nm spanning using a 1cm long chalcogenide waveguide pumped by a 20MHz train of 320fs pulses at 4μm.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical glass; optical pumping; optical waveguides; supercontinuum generation; chalcogenide glass waveguide; optical pumping; spanning; time 320 fs; two-octave broadband quasicontinuous midinfrared supercontinuum generation; wavelength 4 mum; Absorption; Glass; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
