Title :
Supercontinuum generation in a short tapered fibre
Author :
Birks, T.A. ; Wadsworth, William J. ; Russell, Philip St.J
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Bath Univ., UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. A tapered optical fibre of 1 micron diameter and 30 mm length was used to generate a 200 nm wide supercontinuum from the 0.26 nJ femtosecond pulses emitted by a Ti:sapphire laser.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; sapphire; self-phase modulation; solid lasers; titanium; 0.26 nJ; 1 mum; 30 mm; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; conventional optical fibre; femtosecond pulses; group velocity dispersion; nonlinear effects; refractive index; short tapered fibre; standard telecommunications fibre; supercontinuum generation; tapered optical fibre; wide supercontinuum; Supercontinuum generation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6319-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909812
