Title :
Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation spanning more than 11 μm in a chalcogenide step-index fiber
Author :
Petersen, Christian Rosenberg ; Meller, Uffe ; Kubat, Irnis ; Binbin Zhou ; Dupont, Sune ; Ramsay, Jacob ; Benson, Trevor ; Sujecki, Slawomir ; Abdel-Moneim, Nabil ; Zhuoqi Tang ; Furniss, David ; Seddon, Angela ; Bang, Ole
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
Supercontinuum generation covering an ultra-broad spectrum from 1.5-11.7μm and 1.4-13.3μm is experimentally demonstrated by pumping an 85mm chalcogenide step-index fiber with 100fs pulses at a wavelength of 4.5μm and 6.3μm, respectively.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibres; optical pumping; supercontinuum generation; chalcogenide step-index fiber; midinfrared supercontinuum generation; size 85 mm; time 100 fs; ultrabroad spectrum; wavelength 1.4 mum to 13.3 mum; wavelength 1.5 mum to 11.7 mum; wavelength 4.5 mum; wavelength 6.3 mum; Laser beams; Loss measurement; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
