Title :
The effect of pump coherence on the efficient generation of CW pumped supercontinuum
Author :
Kelleher, E.J.R. ; Travers, J.C. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We present experimental results on the effect of pump bandwidth on the efficiency of generation of continuous-wave supercontinua. We show that the broadest supercontinuum is obtained for intermediate pump bandwidths in agreement with numerical modeling.
Keywords :
light coherence; optical pumping; optical solitons; supercontinuum generation; continuous wave pumped supercontinuum generation; intermediate pump bandwidth; numerical modeling; pump coherence; Bandwidth; Coherence; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
