• DocumentCode
    2018809
  • 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
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2004
  • Firstpage
    483
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8557-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363323
  • Filename
    1363323