High-power all-fiber supercontinuum generation in SF6 photonic crystal fiber

Author

Omenetto, F.G. ; Wolchover, N.A. ; Nicholson, J.W. ; Kumar, V.R.K. ; George, A.K. ; Knight, J.C. ; Russell, P.S.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Tufts Univ., Medford, MA

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Soft-glass photonic-crystal fiber is used to generate broad supercontinuum using an all-fiber-femtosecond laser. The bandwidth exceeds 1700 nm and has average powers in excess of 100 mW with 46-MHz repetition rate.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibres; optical glass; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; SF6 photonic crystal fiber; all-fiber supercontinuum generation; all-fiber-femtosecond laser; broad supercontinuum generation; frequency 46 MHz; high-power supercontinuum generation; soft-glass photonic-crystal fiber; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Sulfur hexafluoride; Supercontinuum generation; (190.4370) Nonlinear Optics, Fibers; (320.7100)Photonic crystals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627745

Filename

4627745