Numerical study of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

Author

Cherif, Rim ; Zghal, Mourad

Author_Institution

Eng. Sch. of Commun. of Tunis (Sup´´Com), Tunis

fYear

2007

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

415

Lastpage

418

Abstract

We report the results of a numerical study of an ultra wide-band supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF). We present the numerical results using a full vectorial finite element method that gives insight into the physical mechanisms responsible for the supercontinuum generation namely dispersion and Kerr effect. The propagation of femtosecond pulses in PCF is studied taking into account the effects of dispersion, self phase modulation, stimulated Raman scattering, and self steepening. The interaction of linear and nonlinear effects is investigated in order to better understand the generation of supercontinuum.

Keywords

Raman spectra; finite element analysis; optical Kerr effect; optical modulation; phase modulation; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; ultra wideband technology; Kerr effect; femtosecond pulses; nonlinear effects; nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; self phase modulation; self steepening; stimulated Raman scattering; ultra wide-band supercontinuum generation; vectorial finite element method; Finite element methods; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Phase modulation; Photonic crystal fibers; Raman scattering; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; nonlinear optics; photonic crystal fiber; soliton;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2007. ICECS 2007. 14th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1377-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1378-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2007.4511018

Filename

4511018