Title :
Polarization preservation of white-light supercontinuum generation
Author :
De Boni, Leonardo ; Toro, Carlos ; Hernandez, Florencio E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL
Abstract :
We demonstrate that the supercontinuum picosecond generation (SC) preserves the polarization state, linear, elliptical and circular, of the pump source. Additionally, an analysis of the main mechanism was done based on the spectra polarization dependence.
Keywords :
light polarisation; supercontinuum generation; polarization preservation; pump source; spectra polarization dependence; white-light supercontinuum generation; Biomedical optical imaging; Chemistry; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical polarization; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; (190.0190) Nonlinear optics; (190.4720) Optical nonlinearities of condensed matter; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
