Photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuumβgeneration

doi:10.1007/s12200-011-0134-0

Front Optoelec Chin

2011, Vol. 4

Issue (4) : 415-419 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-011-0134-0

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Photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuumβgeneration

Xian ZHU, Xinben ZHANG, Jinggang PENG, Xiang CHEN, Jinyan LI(

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Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

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Abstract

Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) present a wavelength-scale periodic microstructure along their length. Their core and two-dimensional photonic crystal might be based on varied geometries and materials, allowing supercontinuum (SC) generation due to nonlinear effects in an extremely large wavelength range. In this paper we have reviewed PCFs utilized for SC generation. Fiber fabrication for SC generation is present. Spectral broadening mechanisms are also described in brief. Particular attention is as well as paid to PCFs including uniform PCFs, cascaded fibers, tapered fibers and PCFs with special material doped, which are commonly used to generate SC.

Keywords photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) supercontinuum (SC) PCF fabrication nonlinear optics tapered PCF cascaded PCF Ge-doped core

Corresponding Author(s): LI Jinyan,Email:ljy@mail.hust.edu.cn

Issue Date: 05 December 2011

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Xian ZHU,Xinben ZHANG,Jinggang PENG, et al. Photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuumβgeneration[J]. Front Optoelec Chin, 2011, 4(4): 415-419.

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Fig.1 Process of PCFs fabrication

Fig.2 Evolution of SC spectra in PCF with varied pump power with output mode shape in extreme blue region showing in the inset

Fig.3 Dispersion curves for the first- and second-stage fibers in cascaded set-up

Fig.4 (a) Output of the first stage; (b) spectrum obtained when pumping the second stage fiber with pump laser; (c) spectrum achieved when pumping the second fiber with the output of first stage

Fig.5 Experimental setup: NOPA, non-collinear optical parametric amplifier; λ/2, half-wave-plate; ND, neutral-density filter; 40×, in-coupling lens

Tab.1 Comparison between when respectively pumped at 1064 nm from Yb doped fiber laser

Fig.6 Spectra recorded for (a) launched power of 13 W in GeO-doped-core PCF (solid curve), and pure silica PCF (dashed curve); (b) corresponding group-velocity curves

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