Double Cladding Seven-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers With Different GVD Properties and Fundamental Supermode Output

Author

Peiguang Yan ; Gelin Zhang ; Huifeng Wei ; Deqin Ouyang ; Shisheng Huang ; Junqing Zhao ; Kangkang Chen ; Jie Luo ; Shuangchen Ruan

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Key Lab. of Laser Eng., Shenzhen Univ., Shenzhen, China

Volume

31

Issue

23

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec.1, 2013

Firstpage

3658

Lastpage

3662

Abstract

We fabricated three kinds of double cladding nonlinear seven-core photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with different group velocity dispersion (GVD) properties and fundamental supermode output. Pumped by a 150 ps polarization maintaining a ytterbium-doped fiber laser based on the gain-switched technique, octave-spanning supercontinua were generated within the wavelengths from 450 to at least 2000 nm in these fibers with a high spatial quality.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; holey fibres; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; ytterbium; GVD properties; PCF; double cladding nonlinear seven-core photonic crystal fibers; fundamental supermode output; gain-switched technique; group velocity dispersion; octave-spanning supercontinua; polarization maintaining ytterbium-doped fiber laser; pumping; spatial quality; time 150 ps; wavelength 450 nm to 2000 nm; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optimized production technology; Photonic crystal fibers; All normal dispersion; in-phase mode (IPM); seven-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF); supercontinuum generation (SCG);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2013.2286210

Filename

6645375