Ultrabroad band white light generation from a multimode photonic bandgap fiber with an air core

Author

Suzuki, K. ; Nakazawa, M.

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

15-19 July 2001

Firstpage

24

Abstract

Ultrabroad band white light over 1400 nm from 0.35 to 1.75 /spl mu/m has been efficiently generated from a 1.5 m-long holey fiber with an air core (multimode photonic bandgap fiber) with the use of a 100 fs mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser operating at 810 nm.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; photonic band gap; self-phase modulation; 0.35 to 1.75 micron; 100 fs; 810 nm; air core; energy confinement; far field pattern; femtosecond light pulses interaction; four wave mixing; holey fiber; microstructure fibers; mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser; multimode photonic bandgap fiber; multiple-capillary drawing; near field pattern; nonlinear effect; optical pumping; phase matching; self phase modulation; silica glass cladding; single transverse mode operation; single-mode operation; two dimensional Bragg structure; ultrabroadband white light generation; visible emission; wavelength dependence; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical fiber losses; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Photonic bandgap fibers; Power generation; Silicon compounds; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Chiba, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6738-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.968016

Filename

968016