Title :
Designing the dispersion for optimum supercontinuum bandwidth using picosecond pulses
Author :
Nikolov, N.I. ; Bang, Ole ; Bjarklev, A.
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
Generation of a 800nm wide within 20dB super-continuum with picosecond pulses is possible by proper design of the dispersion to enhance the efficiency of the direct degenerate four-wave-mixing. The robustness to random fluctuations along the fiber is also improved.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; stability; 20 dB; 800 nm; direct degenerate four-wave-mixing; optical dispersion; optimum supercontinuum bandwidth; picosecond pulse; random fluctuation; robustness; Bandwidth; Constraint optimization; Convergence; Fiber nonlinear optics; Lagrangian functions; Page description languages; Particle beam optics; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1247457
