• DocumentCode
    2241055
  • Title

    Trapping of dispersive waves by solitons in long lengths of tapered PCF

  • Author

    Travers, J.C. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. London, London
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We numerically analyze supercontinuum generation in a long length of tapered PCF to understand the soliton trapping dynamics leading to the enhanced Blue/UV supercontinuum recently achieved experimentally in such fibers.
  • Keywords
    optical dispersion; optical solitons; radiation pressure; supercontinuum generation; dispersive waves; long lengths; optical solitons; optical trapping; supercontinuum generation; tapered PCF; Charge carrier processes; Four-wave mixing; Laser excitation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Raman scattering; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (060.5530) Pulse propagation and temporal solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4571663