Title :
Mid-IR supercontinuum in a fluorozirconate fiber pumped by a femtosecond CPA system at 1.6µm
Author :
Ducros, Nicolas ; Labruyère, Alexis ; Février, Sébastien ; Morin, Franck ; Druon, Frédéric ; Hanna, Marc ; Georges, Patrick
Author_Institution :
Fac. des Sci. et Tech., Xlim, Limoges, France
Abstract :
Mid-IR supercontinuum is demonstrated in a step index fluorozirconate glass fiber pumped by a CPA system emitting 500 fs pulses at 1.6 μm. Output power up to 60 mW is obtained over the supercontinuum bandwidth.
Keywords :
glass fibres; high-speed optical techniques; supercontinuum generation; femtosecond CPA system; mid-IR supercontinuum; size 1.6 mum; step index fluorozirconate glass fiber; time 500 ps; Bandwidth; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber nonlinear optics; Glass; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Radiation detectors; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
