• DocumentCode
    3668136
  • Title

    Broadband supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion chalcogenide microwires

  • Author

    Alaa Al-Kadry;Lizhu Li;Thibault North;Martin Rochette;Mohammed El-Amraoui;Younès Messaddeq

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3480 University street, McGill University, Montré
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    We report the first chalcogenide microwire that is designed with all-normal dispersion to generate supercontinuum by optical-wave-breaking, a low-noise nonlinear process. The generated supercontinuum spectrum spans over an octave from 960 nm to 2500 nm using a microwire length of only 3 mm.
  • Keywords
    "Supercontinuum generation","Optical fiber dispersion","Broadband communication","Ultrafast optics","Fiber nonlinear optics","Optical fibers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics North, 2015
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PN.2015.7292521
  • Filename
    7292521