Title :
Octave spanning supercontinuum in an As2S3 taper using ultra-low pump pulse energy
Author :
Hudson, Darren D. ; Dekker, Stephen A. ; Magi, Eric C. ; Judge, Alexander C. ; Jackson, Stuart D. ; Li, Enbang ; Sanghera, J.S. ; Shaw, L.B. ; Aggarwal, I.D. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
An octave spanning spectrum is generated in an As2S3 taper via 77 pJ pulses from an ultrafast fiber laser. Chirp compensation allows the octave to be generated directly from the un-amplified laser output.
Keywords :
arsenic compounds; chirp modulation; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical pumping; supercontinuum generation; As2S3; chirp compensation; octave spanning spectrum generation; octave spanning supercontinuum; taper; ultra-low pump pulse energy; ultrafast fiber laser; un-amplified laser output; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4