Coherent supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber with all-normal group velocity dispersion

Lucy E Hooper; Peter James Mosley; Alistair C Muir; William J Wadsworth; Jonathan C Knight

doi:10.1364/OE.19.004902

Coherent supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber with all-normal group velocity dispersion

Lucy E Hooper, Peter James Mosley, Alistair C Muir, William J Wadsworth, Jonathan C Knight

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We demonstrate supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fiber with all-normal group velocity dispersion. Pumping a short section of this fiber with compressed pulses from a compact amplified fiber laser generates a 200 nm bandwidth continuum with typical self-phase-modulation characteristics. We demonstrate that the supercontinuum is compressible to a duration of 26 fs. It therefore has a high degree of coherence between all the frequency components, and is a single pulse in the time domain. A smooth, flat spectrum spanning 800 nm is achieved using a longer piece of fiber.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4902-4907
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	19
Issue number	6
Early online date	1 Mar 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.004902
Publication status	Published - 14 Mar 2011

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