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Chin. Phys. B, 2019, Vol. 28(8): 084209    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/28/8/084209
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

The 2-μm to 6-μm mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in cascaded ZBLAN and As2Se3 step-index fibers

Jinmei Yao(姚金妹)1, Bin Zhang(张斌)1,2,3, Ke Yin(殷科)4, Jing Hou(侯静)1,2,3
1 College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China;
2 State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology, Changsha 410073, China;
3 Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High Energy Laser Technology, Changsha 410073, China;
4 National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Academy of Military Sciences PLA, Beijing 100010, China
Abstract  

Fiber-based mid-infrared (MIR) supercontinuum (SC) sources benefit from their spectral brightness and spatial coherence that are needed for many applications, such as spectroscopy and metrology. In this paper, an SC spanning from 2 μm to 6 μm is demonstrated in cascaded ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN) and As2Se3 step-index fibers. The pump source is a ZBLAN fiber-based MIR SC laser with abundant high-peak-power soliton pulses between 3000 nm and 4200 nm. By concatenating the ZBLAN fiber and the As2Se3 fiber, efficient cascading red-shifts are obtained in the normal dispersion region of the As2Se3 fiber. The spectral behavior of cascaded SC generation shows that the long-wavelength proportion of MIR SC generated in the ZBLAN fiber plays a critical role for further spectral extension in the As2Se3 fiber.

Keywords:  supercontinuum generation      infrared lasers      fiber lasers      nonlinear  
Received:  31 March 2019      Revised:  08 May 2019      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.55.Wd (Fiber lasers)  
  42.81.-i (Fiber optics)  
  42.65.Ky (Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61435009, 61235008, and 61405254), the Fund from China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201803170210), and Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate (Grant No. CX2018B008).

Corresponding Authors:  Bin Zhang, Jing Hou     E-mail:  nudtzhb@163.com;houjing25@sina.com

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Jinmei Yao(姚金妹), Bin Zhang(张斌), Ke Yin(殷科), Jing Hou(侯静) The 2-μm to 6-μm mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in cascaded ZBLAN and As2Se3 step-index fibers 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 084209

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