Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide glass fibers: a brief review

Y Wang, S Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
Chalcogenide (ChG) glasses have the characteristics of a wide transparency window (over
20 μm) and high optical nonlinearity (up to 103 times greater than that of silica glasses) …

Mid-infrared supercontinuum covering the 1.4–13.3 μm molecular fingerprint region using ultra-high NA chalcogenide step-index fibre

CR Petersen, U Møller, I Kubat, B Zhou, S Dupont… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The mid-infrared spectral region is of great technical and scientific interest because most
molecules display fundamental vibrational absorptions in this region, leaving distinctive …

Multi-milliwatt mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a suspended core chalcogenide fiber

U Møller, Y Yu, I Kubat, CR Petersen, X Gai… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A low-loss suspended core As_38Se_62 fiber with core diameter of 4.5 μm and a zero-
dispersion wavelength of 3.5 μm was used for mid-infrared supercontinuum generation. The …

Thulium pumped mid-infrared 0.9–9μm supercontinuum generation in concatenated fluoride and chalcogenide glass fibers

I Kubat, C Rosenberg Petersen, UV Møller… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically demonstrate a novel approach for generating Mid-InfraRed
SuperContinuum (MIR SC) by using concatenated fluoride and chalcogenide glass fibers …

Perspectives of mid-infrared optical coherence tomography for inspection and micrometrology of industrial ceramics

R Su, M Kirillin, EW Chang, E Sergeeva, SH Yun… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a promising tool for detecting micro channels, metal
prints, defects and delaminations embedded in alumina and zirconia ceramic layers at …

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in tapered chalcogenide fiber for producing octave-spanning frequency comb around 3 μm

A Marandi, CW Rudy, VG Plotnichenko, EM Dianov… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate mid-infrared (mid-IR) supercontinuum generation (SCG) with instantaneous
bandwidth from 2.2 to 5 μm at 40 dB below the peak, covering the wavelength range …

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation to 12.5 μm in large NA chalcogenide step-index fibres pumped at 4.5 μm

I Kubat, CS Agger, U Møller, AB Seddon, Z Tang… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present numerical modeling of mid-infrared (MIR) supercontinuum generation (SCG) in
dispersion-optimized chalcogenide (CHALC) step-index fibres (SIFs) with exceptionally high …

Spectral-temporal composition matters when cascading supercontinua into the mid-infrared

CR Petersen, PM Moselund, C Petersen, U Møller… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide fibers is a promising technology for broadband
spatially coherent sources in the mid-infrared, but it suffers from discouraging commercial …

Thirteen watt all-fiber mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a single mode ZBLAN fiber pumped by a 2 μm MOPA system

W Yang, B Zhang, G Xue, K Yin, J Hou - Optics Letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
All-fiber-integrated mid-infrared (mid-IR) supercontinuum (SC) generation in a single mode
ZBLAN (ZrF_4-BaF_2-LaF_3-AlF_3-NaF) fiber with 13 W average output power and a …

Multimode supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide glass fibres

I Kubat, O Bang - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation is considered in chalcogenide fibres when taking
into account both polarisations and the necessary higher order modes. In particular we focus …