Optimization of supercontinuum generation in air-silica nanowires

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 904-908

  Lu, Hua ^a   Liu, Xueming ^a   Gong, Yongkang ^a   Hu, Xiaohong ^a   Li, Xiaohui ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; OPTIMIZATION; SILICA;

HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INCIDENT PULSE; NON-LINEARITY; SILICA NANO WIRES; SPECTRAL INTENSITY; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77955679859     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000904     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. R. R. Alfano and S. L. Shapiro, "Emission in the region 4000 to 7000 Å via four-photon coupling in glass," Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 584-587 (1970).
2. R. R. Alfano and S. L. Shapiro, "Observation of self phase modulation and small-scale filaments in crystals and glasses," Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 592-594 (1970).
3. J. M. Dudley, G. Genty, and S. Coen, "Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber," Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 1135-1185 (2006).
4. 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).
5. J. K. Ranka, R. S. Windeler, and A. J. Stentz, "Optical properties of high-delta air-silica microstructure optical fibers," Opt. Lett. 25, 796-798 (2000).
6. P. Russell, "Photonic crystal fibers," Science 299, 358-362 (2003).
7. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 3rd ed. (Academic, 2001), 498.
8. G. Genty, M. Lehtonen, and H. Ludvigsen, "Effect of crossphase modulation on supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers with sub-30 fs pulses," Opt. Express 12, 4614-4624 (2004).
9. R. A. Dane, C. M. de Sterke, B. J. Eggleton, and T. G. Brown, "Dispersive wave blue-shift in supercontinuum generation," Opt. Express 14, 11997-12007 (2006).
10. A. V. Husakou and J. Herrmann, "Supercontinuum generation, four-wave mixing, and fission of higher-order solitons in photonic-crystal fibers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 2171-2182 (2002).
11. J. D. Harvey, R. Leonhardt, S. Coen, G. K. L. Wong, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell, "Scalar modulation instability in the normal dispersion regime by use of a photonic crystal fiber," Opt. Lett. 28, 2225-2227 (2003).
12. J. Herrmann, U. Griebner, N. Zhavoronkov, A. Husakou, D. Nickel, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, P. St. J. Russell, and G. Korn, "Experimental evidence for supercontinuum generation by fission of high-order solitons in photonic fibers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 173901 (2002).
13. K. M. Hilligsøe, H. N. Paulsen, J. Thøgersen, S. R. Keiding, and J. J. Larsen, "Initial steps of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20, 1887- 1893 (2003).
14. A. V. Husakou and J. Herrmann, "Supercontinuum generation of higher-order solitons by fission in photonic crystal fibers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 203901 (2001).
15. R. H. Stolen, C. Lee, and R. K. Jain, "Development of the stimulated Raman spectrum in single-mode silica fibers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1, 652-657 (1984).
16. X. Liu, C. Xu, W. H. Knox, J. K. Chandalia, B. J. Eggleton, S. G. Kosinski, and R. S. Windeler, "Soliton self-frequency shift in a short tapered air-silica microstructure fiber," Opt. Lett. 26, 358-360 (2001). (Pubitemid 33693245)
17. F. Luan, J. Knight, P. Russell, S. Campbell, D. Xiao, D. Reid, B. Mangan, D. Williams, and P. Roberts, "Femtosecond soliton pulse delivery at 800 nm wavelength in hollowcore photonic bandgap fibers," Opt. Express 12, 835-840 (2004).
18. J. Dudley and S. Coen, "Fundamental limits to few-cycle pulse generation from compression of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal fiber," Opt. Express 12, 2423-2428 (2004).
19. Z. M. Zhu and T. Brown, "Experimental studies of polarization properties of supercontinua generated in a birefringent photonic crystal fiber," Opt. Express 12, 791-796 (2004).
20. G. Q. Chang, T. B. Norris, and H. G. Winful, "Optimization of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers for pulse compression," Opt. Lett. 28, 546-548 (2003).
21. L. M. Tong, R. R. Gattass, J. B. Ashcom, S. L. He, J. Y. Lou, M. Y. Shen, I. Maxwell, and E. Mazur, "Subwavelengthdiameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding," Nature 426, 816-819 (2003).
22. M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Nonlinear optics in photonic nanowires," Opt. Express 16, 1300-1320 (2008).
23. S. G. Leon-Saval, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell, "Supercontinuum generation in submicron fibre waveguides," Opt. Express 12, 2864-2870 (2004).
24. M. A. Foster, J. M. Dudley, B. Kibler, Q. Cao, D. Lee, R. Trebino, and A. L. Gaeta, "Nonlinear pulse propagation and supercontinuum generation in photonic nanowires: experiment and simulation," Appl. Phys. B 81, 363-367 (2005).
25. D. J. Jones, S. A. Diddams, J. K. Ranka, A. Stentz, R. S. Windeler, J. L. Hall, and S. T. Cundiff, "Carrier-envelope phase control of femtosecond mode-locked lasers and direct optical frequency synthesis," Science 288, 635-639 (2000).
26. I. Hartl, X. D. Li, C. Chudoba, R. K. Ghanta, T. H. Ko, J. G. Fujimoto, J. K. Ranka, and R. S. Windeler, "Ultrahighresolution optical coherence tomography using continuum generation in an air-silica microstructure optical fiber," Opt. Lett. 26, 608-610 (2001). (Pubitemid 33693487)
27. X. Liu and B. Lee, "A fast method for nonlinear Schrödinger equation," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 15, 1549-1551 (2003).
28. J. M. Dudley, L. Provino, N. Grossard, H. Maillotte, R. S. Windeler, B. J. Eggleton, and S. Coen, "Supercontinuum generation in air-silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 765-771 (2002).
29. S. Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, Jr., and M. P. Vecchi, "Optimization by simulated annealing," Science 220, 671-680 (1983).
30. D. E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning (Addison-Wesley, 1989).
31. R. Chelouah and P. Siarry, "A continuous genetic algorithm designed for the global optimization of multimodal functions," J. Heuristics 6, 191-213 (2000).
32. L. M. Tong, J. Y. Lou, and E. Mazur, "Single-mode guiding properties of subwavelength-diameter silica and silicon wire waveguides," Opt. Express 12, 1025-1035 (2004).
33. J. Y. Lou, L. M. Tong, and Z. Z. Ye, "Dispersion shifts in optical nanowires with thin dielectric coatings," Opt. Express 14, 6993-6998 (2006).
34. M. Foster, K. Moll, and A. Gaeta, "Optimal waveguide dimensions for nonlinear interactions," Opt. Express 12, 2880-2887 (2004).