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

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24218-24225

  Marandi, Alireza ^a   Rudy, Charles W ^a   Plotnichenko, Victor G ^b   Dianov, Evgeny M ^b   Vodopyanov, Konstantin L ^a   Byer, Robert L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADED NONLINEAR PROCESS; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; FREQUENCY COMBS; IN-SITU; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; MIDINFRARED; MODE-LOCKED; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NEAR-IR; STABILIZATION MECHANISMS; SUBHARMONICS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84868231360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024218     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. A. Schliesser, N. Picque, and T. W. Hansch, "Mid-infrared frequency combs", Nat. Photonics 6, 440-449 (2012).
2. S. A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, and V. Mbele, "Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb", Nature 445, 627-630 (2007).
3. M. J. Thorpe, D. Balslev-Clausen, M. S. Kirchner, and J. Ye, "Cavity-enhanced optical frequency comb spectroscopy: application to human breath analysis", Opt. Express 16, 2387-2397 (2008).
4. C. M. S. Sears, E. Colby, R. J. England, R. Ischebeck, C. McGuinness, J. Nelson, R. Noble, R. H. Siemann, J. Spencer, D. Walz, T. Plettner, and R. L. Byer, "Phase stable net acceleration of electrons from a two-stage optical accelerator", Phys. Rev. Lett. 11, 101301 (2008).
5. T. Popmintchev, M. C. Chen, P. Arpin, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, "The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation", Nat. Photonics 4, 822-832 (2010).
6. N. Leindecker, A. Marandi, R. L. Byer, and K. L. Vodopyanov, "Broadband degenerate OPO for mid-infrared frequency comb generation", Opt. Express 19, 6296-6302 (2011).
7. A. Marandi, N. Leindecker, V. Pervak, R. L. Byer, and K. L. Vodopyanov, "Coherence properties of a broadband femtosecond mid-IR optical parametric oscillator operating at degeneracy", Opt. Express 20, 7255-7262 (2012).
8. N. Leindecker, A. Marandi, R. L. Byer, K. L. Vodopyanov, J. Jiang, I. Hartl, M. Fermann, and P. G. Schunemann, "Octave-spanning ultrafast OPO with 2.6-6.1μm instantaneous bandwidth pumped by femtosecond Tm-fiber laser", Opt. Express 20, 7046-7053 (2012).
9. R. R. Alfanao and S. L. Shapiro, "Emission in the region 4000 to 7000 A via four-photon coupling in glass", Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 584-587 (1970).
10. J. M. Dudley and J. R. Taylor, Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
11. B. J. Eggleton, B. Luther-Davies, and K. Richardson, "Chalcogenide photonics", Nat. Photonics 5, 141148 (2011).
12. 3 taper using ultralow pump pulse energy", Opt. Lett. 36, 1122-1124 (2011).
13. P. Domachuk, N. A. Wolchover, M. Cronin-Golomb, A. Wang, A. K. George, C. M. B. Cordeiro, J. C. Knight, and F. G. Omenetto, "Over 4000 nm bandwidth of mid-IR supercontinuum generation in sub-centimeter segments of highly nonlinear tellurite PCFs", Opt. Express 6, 7161-7168 (2008).
14. J. Hu, C. R. Menyuk, L. B. Shaw, J. S. Sanghera, and I. D. Aggarwal, "Maximizing the bandwidth of supercontinuum generation in As2Se3 chalcogenide fibers", Opt. Express 18, 6722-6739 (2010)
15. M. El-Amraoui, J. Fatome, J. C. Jules, B. Kibler, G. Gadret, C. Fortier, F. Smektala, I. Skripatchev, C. F. Polacchini, Y. Messaddeq, J. Troles, L. Brilland, M. Szpulak, and G. Renversez, "Strong infrared spectral broadening in low-loss As-S chalcogenide suspended core microstructured optical fibers", Opt. Express 18, 4547-4556 (2010)
16. M. Liao, X. Yan, W. Gao, Z. Duan, G. Qin, T. Suzuki, and Y. Ohishi, "Five-order SRSs and supercontinuum generation from a tapered tellurite microstructured fiber with longitudinally varying dispersion", Opt. Express 19, 15389-15396 (2011).
17. P. M. Moselund, C. Petersen, S. Dupont, C. Agger, O. Bang, and S. R. Keiding, "Supercontinuum: broad as a lamp, bright as a laser, now in the mid-infrared", Proc. SPIE 8381, 83811A (2012).
18. L. Brandon Shaw, R. R. Gattass, J. Sanghera, and I. Aggarwal, "All-fiber mid-IR supercontinuum source from 1.5 to 5 μm", Proc. SPIE 7914, 79140P (2011).
19. J. M. Dudley and S. Coen, "Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers", Opt. Lett. 27, 1180-1182 (2002).
20. K. L. Corwin, N. R. Newbury, J. M. Dudley, S. Coen, S. A. Diddams, K. Weber, and R. S. Windeler, "Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber", Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 113904 (2003).
21. F. Keilmann, C. Gohle, and R. Holzwarth, "Time-domain mid-infrared frequency-comb spectrometer", Opt. Lett. 29, 1542-1544 (2004).
22. B. Bernhardt, A. Ozawa, P. Jacquet, M. Jacquey, Y. Kobayashi, T. Udem, R. Holzwarth, G. Guelachvili, T. W. Hansch, and N. Picque, "Cavity-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy", Nat. Photonics 4, 55-57 (2010).
23. J. M. Harbold, F. O. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. S. Sanghera, V. Q. Nguyen, L. B. Shaw, and I. D. Aggarwal, "Highly nonlinear As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching", Opt. Lett. 27, 119-121 (2002).
24. G. E. Snopatin, V. S. Shiryaev, V. G. Plotnichenko, E. M. Dianov, and M. F. Churbanov, "High-purity chalcogenide glasses for fiber optics", Inorg. Mater. 45, 1439-1460 (2009).
25. W. S. Rodney, I. H. Maliston, and T. A. King, "Refractive index of arsenic trisulfide", J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48, 633-635 (1958).
26. T. A. Birks and Y. W. Li, "The shape of fiber tapers", J. Lightwave Technol. 10, 432-438 (1992)
27. M. Bellini and T. W. Hansch, "Phase-locked white-light continuum pulses: toward a universal optical frequencycomb synthesizer", Opt. Lett. 25, 1049-1051 (2000).
28. R. Ahmad and M. Rochette, "High efficiency and ultra broadband optical parametric four-wave mixing in chalcogenide-PMMA hybrid microwires", Opt. Express. 20, 9572-9580 (2012).
29. J. M. Dudley, G. Genty, and S. Coen, "Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber", Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 1135-1184 (2006).
30. C. Xiong, E. Magi, F. Luan, A. Tuniz, S. Dekker, J. S. Sanghera, L. B. Shaw, I. D. Aggarwal, and B. J. Eggleton, "Characterization of picosecond pulse nonlinear propagation in chalcogenide As2S3 fiber", Appl. Opt. 48, 5467-5474 (2009).