Title :
Supercontinnum Generation in a Microstructured Optical Fiber by Picosecond Self Q-switched Mode- Locked Nd: GdVO4 Laser
Author :
Ja Hon Lin ; Kuei-Huei Lin ; Hsieh, Wen-Feng
Abstract :
An effective supercontinuum generation is demonstrated by injecting picosecond self Q-switched mode-locked Nd:GdVO4 laser pulses into an 1 m long microstructured fiber (MF) near the longer zero-dispersion wavelength of the dual zero-dispersion points.
Keywords :
Q-switching; gadolinium compounds; holey fibres; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical fibre dispersion; solid lasers; supercontinuum generation; 1 m; GdVO4:Nd; dual zero-dispersion points; laser pulses; microstructured optical fiber; picosecond self Q-switched mode-locked laser; supercontinnum generation; zero-dispersion wavelength; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Neodymium; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Scanning electron microscopy; Supercontinuum generation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC, Canada
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278900