Nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with a structured multi-component glass core for four-wave mixing and supercontinuum generation

Autor: Kay Schuster, Raphaël Jamier, Hartmut Bartelt, Philippe Leproux, Volker Reichel, Vincent Couderc, Jens Kobelke, Alexis Labruyère, Vincent Tombelaine
Přispěvatelé: Lebraud, Sophie, PHOTONIQUE, XLIM (XLIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Optics Express
Optics Express, Optical Society of America-OSA Publishing, 2009, 17 (18), pp.15392-15401
ISSN: 1094-4087
Popis: We report about a new type of nonlinear photonic crystal fibers allowing broadband four-wave mixing and supercontinuum generation. The microstructured optical fiber has a structured core consisting of a rod of highly nonlinear glass material inserted in a silica tube. This particular structure enables four wave mixing processes with very large frequency detuning (>135 THz), which permitted the generation of a wide supercontinuum spectrum extending over 1650 nm after 2.15 m of propagation length. The comparison with results obtained from germanium-doped holey fibers confirms the important role of the rod material properties regarding nonlinear process and dispersion.
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