Second and third order nonlinearities in a highly birefringent holey fiber for supercontinuum generation

Author

Lesvigne, Christelle ; Tombelaine, Vincent ; Leproux, Philippe ; Couderc, Vincent ; Auguste, Jean-Louis ; Blondy, Jean-Marc ; Huss, Guillaume

Author_Institution

Fac. des Sci. et Tech., IRCOM, Limoges

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present experimental results regarding second and third harmonic generation in a highly nonlinear and birefringent air-silica microstructured fiber. This second order nonlinearity is used to initiate wide band modulation instabilities in the visible domain.

Keywords

air; birefringence; holey fibres; silicon compounds; supercontinuum generation; SiO₂; air-silica microstructured fiber; birefringent holey fiber; second order nonlinearities; second order nonlinearity; supercontinuum generation; third order nonlinearities; wide band modulation instabilities; Birefringence; Holey fibers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical harmonic generation; Photonic crystal fibers; Silicon compounds; Supercontinuum generation; Wideband; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics fibers; (190.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628416

Filename

4628416