• DocumentCode
    421420
  • Title

    Octave supercontinuum generated in tapered conventional fibres by a nanosecond 1064 nm laser

  • Author

    Cordeiro, C.M.B. ; Wadsworth, W.J. ; Birks, T.A. ; Russell, P. J St

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Bath Univ., UK
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated a 650 nm wide supercontinuum generated in tapered fibres immersed in heavy water. The pump source was a low-cost diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser with a pulse width of 0.6 ns and an output power of 40 mW.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; neodymium; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; optical pumping; solid lasers; 0.6 ns; 1064 nm; 40 mW; 650 nm; Nd:YAG laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; heavy water; low-cost diode pump; nanosecond laser; octave supercontinuum; pump source; tapered conventional fibres;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1360609