Supercontinuum generated in all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fibers with picosecond pump pulses

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/7/074204

Abstract The supercontinuum (SC) generations in all-normal dispersion (ANDi) photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) pumped by high power picosecond pulses are investigated in this paper. Our results show that an octave SC may be achieved by pumping the ANDi PCF with picosecond pump pulses. However, the PCF length required may have to be lengthened to several tens of centimeters, which is much longer than that with femtosecond pump pulses. The relatively long PCF gives rise to much higher Raman gain and stronger Raman frequency shift compared to those with femtosecond pump pulses, which in turn not only cause a distorted temporal waveform and an un-flatted spectrum, but also severely degrade the coherence of the generated SC.

Keywords: supercontinuum generation photonic crystal fibers optical wave breaking

Received: 22 January 2013
Revised: 21 March 2013
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PACS:	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)
	42.65.Tg	(Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves)
	42.81.-i	(Fiber optics)

Fund: Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2011AA030203), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61250017), and the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy Sciences (Grant No. KJZD-EW-W02).

Corresponding Authors: Mao Qing-He
E-mail: mqinghe@aiofm.ac.cn

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Li Pan (李磐), Shi Lei (时雷), Mao Qing-He (毛庆和) Supercontinuum generated in all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fibers with picosecond pump pulses 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 074204

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