Supercontinuum generation in solid-core photonic bandgap fibers

Author

Bétourné, Aurélie ; Kudlinski, Alexandre ; Bouwmans, Géraud ; Mussot, Arnaud ; Quiquempois, Yves

Author_Institution

Lab. PhLAM, Univ. de Lille 1, Villeneuve-d´´Ascq, France

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Here, we report a significant supercontinuum generation in a solid-core PBGF (in which light is guided by a photonic bandgap effect), with low-index contrast resonators, in the nanosecond pumping regime. We have experimentally observed for the first time significant nonlinear effects in a solid-core PBGF with pump powers in the kW level. By pumping in an anomalous dispersion region of the fiber in the quasi-cw regime, a supercontinuum spanning more than 500 nm was generated.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; optical resonators; photonic band gap; supercontinuum generation; anomalous dispersion region; low-index contrast resonator; nonlinear effects; quasi-cw regime; solid-core photonic bandgap fiber; supercontinuum generation; Dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optimized production technology; Photonic band gap; Photonic bandgap fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196581

Filename

5196581