Title :
Practical supercontinuum source for few hundred femtosecond seed pulses
Author :
Domingue, Scott R. ; Bartels, Randy A.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
We present measurements and theoretical work demonstrating the drastic reduction of polarization instability driven noise, improving the stability of polarized supercontinuum generated in all normal dispersion highly nonlinear fiber.
Keywords :
optical dispersion; optical noise; optical pulse generation; supercontinuum generation; femtosecond seed pulses; normal dispersion; polarization instability driven noise; practical supercontinuum source; Coherence; Noise; Noise measurement; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Normal Dispersion; Polarization Stability; Supercontinuum;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358776
