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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
