DocumentCode
2947671
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
fYear
2000
fDate
10-15 Sept. 2000
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
Conference_Location
Nice
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6319-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909812
Filename
909812
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