Improved supercontinuum generation through UV processing of highly nonlinear fibers

PS Westbrook, JW Nicholson, KS Feder… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that UV exposure of highly nonlinear, germano-silicate fibers can
significantly broaden the infrared supercontinuum generated by femtosecond pulses in …

Supercontinuum generation by noise-like pulses transmitted through normally dispersive standard single-mode fibers

A Zaytsev, CH Lin, YJ You, CC Chung, CL Wang… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report generation of broadband supercontinuum (SC) by noise-like pulses (NLPs) with a
central wavelength of 1070 nm propagating through a long piece of standard single-mode …

Versatile supercontinuum generation in parabolic multimode optical fibers

MA Eftekhar, LG Wright, MS Mills, M Kolesik… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that the pump's spatial input profile can provide additional degrees of
freedom in tailoring at will the nonlinear dynamics and the ensuing spectral content of …

Highly nonlinear fibers for very wideband supercontinuum generation

L Grüner-Nielsen, B Pálsdóttir - Fiber Lasers V: Technology …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear fibers (HNLF) pumped with femtosecond
pulses is an area of large interest for applications such as broad band light sources, tunable …

Noise amplification during supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber

NR Newbury, BR Washburn, KL Corwin, RS Windeler - Optics letters, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinua generated by femtosecond pulses launched in microstructure fiber can
exhibit significant low-frequency (< 1‐MHz) amplitude noise on the output pulse train. We …

Supercontinuum generation in silica fibers by amplified nanosecond laser diode pulses

C Xia, M Kumar, MY Cheng, OP Kulkarni… - IEEE Journal of …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supercontinuum (SC) with a continuous spectrum from~ 0.8-3 mum is generated in a
standard single-mode fiber followed by high-nonlinearity fiber. The SC is pumped by 2-ns …

Analysis of the interplay between soliton fission and modulation instability in supercontinuum generation

A Demircan, U Bandelow - Applied Physics B, 2007 - Springer
We investigate the generation mechanisms for ultra-wide spectra in nonlinear optical fibers.
Soliton fission and modulation instability represent fundamental mechanisms for the …

Supercontinuum generation through cascaded four-wave mixing in photonic-crystal fibers: When picoseconds do it better

EE Serebryannikov, AM Zheltikov - Optics communications, 2007 - Elsevier
By numerically solving the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we provide a
comparative analysis of spectral and temporal transformations of pico and femtosecond …

Fundamental amplitude noise limitations to supercontinuum spectra generated in a microstructured fiber

KL Corwin, NR Newbury, JM Dudley, S Coen… - Applied Physics B, 2003 - Springer
Broadband supercontinuum spectra are generated in a microstructured fiber using
femtosecond laser pulses. Noise properties of these spectra are studied through …

Pumping wavelength dependence of super continuum generation in photonic crystal fibers

KP Hansen, JR Jensen, D Birkedal… - Optical Fiber …, 2002 - opg.optica.org
Formation of broad continuous spectra through propagation of short femto-or picosecond-
range high power pulses through nonlinear media (also known as super continuum …