Title :
Dispersion micro-managed holey fiber and coherent blue-violet continuum generation
Author :
Lu, Fei ; Deng, Yujun ; Foulkrod, Larry E. ; Knox, Wayne H.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Opt., Rochester Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
Sub-mm scale dispersion micro-management is introduced and demonstrated to generate coherent blue-violet continuum in a short holey fiber. The longitudinal variations of phase-matching conditions of Cherenkov radiation and four-wave mixing are the reasons.
Keywords :
Cherenkov radiation; micro-optics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical phase matching; supercontinuum generation; Cherenkov radiation; coherent blue-violet continuum generation; dispersion micro-managed holey fiber; four-wave mixing; phase-matching condition; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Four-wave mixing; Frequency conversion; Hafnium; Holey fibers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical frequency conversion; Power generation; Resonance;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202080
