DocumentCode
1890271
Title
Improved supercontinuum generation by dispersion tuning and dual wavelength pumping
Author
El-Taher, A.E. ; Alcon-Camas, M. ; Karalekas, V. ; Ania-Castanon, J.D. ; Harper, P.
Author_Institution
Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
fYear
2009
fDate
20-24 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Supercontinuum generation in ultra-long Raman fibre laser cavities is compared for a range of fibre dispersions in the anomalous and normal regimes. For normal dispersion improved performance and efficiency is achieved using dual wavelength pumping.
Keywords
Raman lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; supercontinuum generation; dispersion tuning; dual wavelength pumping; fibre dispersions; supercontinuum generation; ultra-long Raman fibre laser cavities; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Pump lasers; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Vienna
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5096-1
Type
conf
Filename
5287364
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