Title :
Highly-efficient mid-IR supercontinuum generation in ZBLAN fiber pumped by thulium-doped fiber amplifier
Author :
Jiang Liu ; Kun Liu ; Hongxing Shi ; Fangzhou Tan ; Yijian Jiang ; Pu Wang
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Laser Eng., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Mid-infrared supercontinuum of 8.1 W with optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of ~76% with respect to the launched pump power at 2 μm wavelength was demonstrated in a ZBLAN fiber pumped by a thulium-doped all-fiber amplifier.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; barium compounds; lanthanum compounds; laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; sodium compounds; supercontinuum generation; thulium; zirconium compounds; ZBLAN; ZBLAN fiber; highly-efficient mid-IR supercontinuum generation; launched pump power; mid-infrared supercontinuum; optical-to-optical conversion efficiency; power 8.1 W; thulium-doped all-fiber amplifier; wavelength 2 mum; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power generation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
