The compressibility of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal fibre

Author

Dudley, John M. ; Coen, Stéphane

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Optique P.M. Duffieux, Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

611

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the dependence of the compressibility of a photonic crystal fibers (PCF)-generated supercontinuum (SC) on its spectral stability and coherence. We use a stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation model and consider SC generation in a 10 cm PCF with zero dispersion at 770 nm. We determine the coherence from an ensemble of 128 numerical simulations with different initial random quantum noise.

Keywords

Schrodinger equation; infrared spectra; nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; photonic crystals; quantum noise; random noise; visible spectra; 10 cm; 770 nm; compressibility; fiber dispersion; numerical simulations; photonic crystal fibres; random quantum noise; spectral coherence; spectral stability; stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation model; supercontinuum spectral generation; Bandwidth; Coherence; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Stability; Stochastic resonance; Supercontinuum generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313673

Filename

1313673