Self-compression and Raman soliton generation in a photonic crystal fiber of 100-fs pulses produced by a diode-pumped Yb-doped oscillator

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 33, 2003, Pages 6768-6770

  Druon, Frédéric ^a   Sanner, Nicolas ^a   Lucas Leclin, Gaëlle ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a   Hansen, Kim P ^b   Petersson, Anders ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; PUMPING (LASER); RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DIODE-PUMPED YTTERBIUM LASER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; RAMAN SOLITON GENERATION; SELF-COMPRESSION; TUNABILITY;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 1842843840     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006768     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. M. J. Gander, R. McBride, J. D. C. Jones, D. Mogilevstev, T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russel, “Experimental measurement of group velocity dispersion in photonic crystal fiber,” Electron Lett. 35, 63-64 (1999).
2. J. K. Ranka, R. S. Windeler, and A. J. Stentz, “Visible continuum generation in air-silica microstructure optical fibers with anomalous dispersion at 800 nm,” Opt. Lett. 25, 25-27 (2000).
3. B. R. Washburn, S. E. Ralph, P. A. Lacourt, J. M. Dudley, W. T. Rhodes, R. S. Windeler, and S. Coen, “Tunable near-infrared soliton in photonic crystal fiber,” Electron. Lett. 37,1510-1511 (2001).
4. I. G. Cormack, D. T. Reid, W. J. Wadsworth, J. C. Knight, P. St. J. Russel, “Observation of soliton self-frequency shift in photonic crystal fiber,” Electron. Lett. 38, 167-168 (2002).
5. R. Holzwarth, M. Zimmermann, Th. Udem, T. W. Hansch, P. Russbuldt, K. Gabel, R. Poprawe, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russel, “White-light frequency comb generation with a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser,” Opt. Lett. 26, 1376-1378 (2001).
6. S. Coen, A. H. L. Chau, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russel, “White-light supercontinuum generation with 60-ps pump pulses in a photonic crystal fiber,” Opt. Lett. 26, 1356-1358 (2001).
7. 3+-doped holey fiber amplifier,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 1286-1294 (2002).
8. J. H. V. Price, W. Belardi, T. M. Monro, A. Malinowski, A. Piper, and D. J. Richardson, “Soliton transmission and supercontinuum generation in holey fiber, using a diode pumped ytterbium fiber source,” Opt. Express 10, 382-387 (2002), http://www.opticsexpress.org.
9. 3O, for the development of diode-pumped femtosecond lasers,” Opt. Lett. 27, 1914-1916 (2002).
10. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1994).
11. A. V. Husakou and J. Herrmann, “Supercontinuum generation of higher-order solitons by fission in photonic crystal fiber,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 203-901 (2001).
12. J. Dudley and S. Coen, “Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers,” Opt. Lett. 27, 1180-1182 (2002).