• DocumentCode
    520694
  • Title

    Maximizing the supercontinuum bandwidth in As2S3 chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

  • Author

    Weiblen, R.J. ; Hu, J. ; Menyuk, C.R. ; Shaw, L.B. ; Sanghera, J.S. ; Aggarwal, I.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We simulate supercontinuum generation in an As2S3 chalcogenide photonic crystal fiber with a hexagonal structure, optimizing the fiber pitch and pulse duration with a 2.8 μm laser source in order to maximize the output bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; holey fibres; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; As2S3; chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers; fiber pitch optimisation; pulse duration optimisation; supercontinuum bandwidth; supercontinuum generation; wavelength 2.8 mum; Bandwidth; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500286