Title :
Analysis of supercontinuum generation in soft glass photonic crystal fibers with cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating
Author :
Efimov, Anatoly ; Taylor, Antoinette J. ; Omenetto, F.G. ; Kumar, V. V Ravi Kanth ; Knight, J.C. ; Russell, P. St J
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Abstract :
Initial stages of supercontinuum generation in SF6 extruded photonic crystal fiber are experimentally studied with X-FROG and spectral measurements. Self-steepening is clearly observed and its role in generation of anti-Stokes blue shifted spectral components is highlighted.
Keywords :
Raman spectra; optical fibres; optical glass; photonic crystals; spectral line shift; supercontinuum generation; SF6 extruded photonic crystal fiber; X-FROG; antiStokes blueshifted spectral component; cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating; self-steepening; soft glass; spectral measurement; supercontinuum generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Glass; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Photonic crystal fibers; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202079
