Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

JM Dudley, G Genty, S Coen - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
A topical review of numerical and experimental studies of supercontinuum generation in
photonic crystal fiber is presented over the full range of experimentally reported parameters …

Initial steps of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers

KM Hilligsøe, HN Paulsen, J Thøgersen, SR Keiding… - JOSA B, 2003 - opg.optica.org
The onset of supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fiber is investigated
experimentally and numerically as a function of pump wavelength and intensity with 100-fs …

Experimental evidence for supercontinuum generation by fission of higher-order solitons in photonic fibers

J Herrmann, U Griebner, N Zhavoronkov, A Husakou… - Physical review …, 2002 - APS
We report on an experimental study of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers
with low-intensity femtosecond pulses, which provides evidence for a novel spectral …

Supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fiber with two zero dispersion wavelengths

KM Hilligsøe, TV Andersen, HN Paulsen… - Optics …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with
two closely lying zero dispersion wavelengths. The special dispersion of the fiber has a …

Supercontinuum generation, four-wave mixing, and fission of higher-order solitons in photonic-crystal fibers

AV Husakou, J Herrmann - JOSA B, 2002 - opg.optica.org
The nonlinear propagation of femtosecond pulses in photonic-crystal fibers is investigated
theoretically without the use of the slowly varying envelope approximation. Low-intensity …

Supercontinuum generation by higher-order mode excitation in a photonic crystal fiber

R Cherif, M Zghal, L Tartara, V Degiorgio - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We describe an experiment in which a train of femtosecond pulses is coupled into a
photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by means of an offset pumping technique that can selectively …

Supercontinuum generation of higher-order solitons by fission in photonic crystal fibers

AV Husakou, J Herrmann - Physical review letters, 2001 - APS
The nonlinear pulse propagation in photonic crystal fibers without slowly varying envelope
approximation is studied using an improved variant of first-order wave equation …

Supercontinuum generation and nonlinear pulse propagation in photonic crystal fiber: influence of the frequency-dependent effective mode area

B Kibler, JM Dudley, S Coen - Applied Physics B, 2005 - Springer
Numerical simulations are used to study the effect of the frequency dependence of the
effective mode area in photonic crystal fiber on supercontinuum generation. We quantify …

Pulse breaking and supercontinuum generation with 200-fs pump pulses in photonic crystal fibers

A Ortigosa-Blanch, JC Knight, PSJ Russell - JOSA B, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We have carried out a detailed experimental study of the behavior of 200-fs pulses in highly
nonlinear photonic crystal fiber to elucidate the mechanisms for supercontinuum generation …

Light trapping in gravity-like potentials and expansion of supercontinuum spectra in photonic-crystal fibres

AV Gorbach, DV Skryabin - Nature Photonics, 2007 - nature.com
Femtosecond pulses of light propagating along photonic-crystal fibres can generate a broad
optical supercontinuum,. This striking discovery has applications ranging from spectroscopy …