Title :
Novel highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber for supercontinuum generation
Author :
Gopinath, Juliet T. ; Shen, Hanfei M. ; Sotobayashf, H. ; Ippen, Erich P.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Supercontinuum generation is observed in highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber with normal dispersion. The small effective area and high nonlinearity allow generation of smooth, spectrally-unstructured spectra from 1300 nm to > 1700 nm with sub-0.5 nJ pulse energies at 1540 nm.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; infrared spectra; optical fibre dispersion; supercontinuum generation; 0.5 nJ; 1540 nm; Bi2O3; nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber; normal dispersion fiber; smooth spectra; spectrally-unstructured spectra; supercontinuum generation; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Bismuth; Dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical refraction; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363323
