Infrared supercontinuum generation in softglass photonic crystal fibers pumped at 1560 nm

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-15

  Sobon, Grzegorz ^a   Klimczak, Mariusz ^b   Sotor, Jaroslaw ^a   Krzempek, Karol ^a   Pysz, Dariusz ^b   Stepien, Ryszard ^b   Martynkien, Tadeusz ^a   Abramski, Krzysztof M ^a   Buczynski, Ryszard ^b,c  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATIONS; FABRICATION PROCESS; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH NONLINEARITY; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGH TRANSMITTANCE; INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; SUPERCONTINUUM;

CHIRP MODULATION; GLASS; LEAD OXIDE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 84891791572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.4.000007     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. J. M. Dudley, G. Genty, and S. Coen, "Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber," Rev. Mod. Phys. 78(4), 1135-1184 (2006).
2. J. Hult, R. S. Watt, and C. F. Kaminski, "High bandwidth absorption spectroscopy with a dispersed supercontinuum source," Opt. Express 15(18), 11385-11395 (2007).
3. J. Mandon, E. Sorokin, I. T. Sorokina, G. Guelachvili, and N. Picqué, "Supercontinua for high-resolution absorption multiplex infrared spectroscopy," Opt. Lett. 33(3), 285-287 (2008).
4. T. K. Laurila, S. Kiwanuka, J. H. Frank, and C. F. Kaminski, "Broadband cavity-enhanced spectroscopy using supercontinuum radiation," in Lasers, Sources, and Related Photonic Devices, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2012), paper LT5B.4.
5. J. M. Langridge, T. Laurila, R. S. Watt, R. L. Jones, C. F. Kaminski, and J. Hult, "Cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy of multiple trace gas species using a supercontinuum radiation source," Opt. Express 16(14), 10178-10188 (2008).
6. K. Stelmaszczyk, M. Fechner, P. Rohwetter, M. Queißer, A. Czyzewski, T. Stacewicz, and L. Wöste, "Towards supercontinuum cavity ring-down spectroscopy," Appl. Phys. B 94(3), 369-373 (2009).
7. 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(1), 25-27 (2000).
8. M. Kumar, C. Xia, X. Ma, V. V. Alexander, M. N. Islam, F. L. Terry, Jr., C. C. Aleksoff, A. Klooster, and D. Davidson, "Power adjustable visible supercontinuum generation using amplified nanosecond gain-switched laser diode," Opt. Express 16(9), 6194-6201 (2008).
9. C. Farrell, K. A. Serrels, T. R. Lundquist, P. Vedagarbha, and D. T. Reid, "Octave-spanning super-continuum from a silica photonic crystal fiber pumped by a 386 MHz Yb:fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 37(10), 1778-1780 (2012).
10. V. V. R. K. Kumar, A. George, J. Knight, and P. Russell, "Tellurite photonic crystal fiber," Opt. Express 11(20), 2641-2645 (2003).
11. I. Savelii, J. C. Jules, G. Gadret, B. Kibler, J. Fatome, M. El-Amraoui, N. Manikandan, X. Zheng, F. Désévédavy, J. M. Dudley, J. Troles, L. Brilland, G. Renversez, and F. Smektala, "Suspended core tellurite glass optical fibers for infrared supercontinuum generation," Opt. Mater. 33(11), 1661-1666 (2011).
12. I. Savelii, O. Mouawad, J. Fatome, B. Kibler, F. Désévédavy, G. Gadret, J.-C. Jules, P.-Y. Bony, H. Kawashima, W. Gao, T. Kohoutek, T. Suzuki, Y. Ohishi, and F. Smektala, "Mid-infrared 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinuum generation in suspended-core microstructured Sulfide and Tellurite optical fibers," Opt. Express 20(24), 27083-27093 (2012).
13. M. Liao, C. Chaudhari, G. Qin, X. Yan, C. Kito, T. Suzuki, Y. Ohishi, M. Matsumoto, and T. Misumi, "Fabrication and characterization of a chalcogenide-tellurite composite microstructure fiber with high nonlinearity," Opt. Express 17(24), 21608-21614 (2009).
14. N. Granzow, S. P. Stark, M. A. Schmidt, A. S. Tverjanovich, L. Wondraczek, and P. St. J. Russell, "Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide-silica step-index fibers," Opt. Express 19(21), 21003-21010 (2011).
15. M. El-Amraoui, G. Gadret, J. C. Jules, J. Fatome, C. Fortier, F. Désévédavy, I. Skripatchev, Y. Messaddeq, J. Troles, L. Brilland, W. Gao, T. Suzuki, Y. Ohishi, and F. Smektala, "Microstructured chalcogenide optical fibers from As2S3 glass: towards new IR broadband sources," Opt. Express 18(25), 26655-26665 (2010).
16. J. H. V. Price, T. M. Monro, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, F. Poletti, P. Horak, V. Finazzi, J. Y. Y. Leong, P. Petropoulos, J. C. Flanagan, G. Brambilla, X. Feng, and D. J. Richardson, "Mid-IR supercontinuum generation from nonsilica microstructured optical fibers," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 13(3), 738-749 (2007).
17. R. Buczynski, H. T. Bookey, D. Pysz, R. Stepien, I. Kujawa, J. E. McCarthy, A. J. Waddie, A. K. Kar, and M. R. Taghizadeh, "Supercontinuum generation up to 2.5μm in photonic crystal fiber made of lead-bismuth-galate glass," Laser Phys. Lett. 7(9), 666-672 (2010).
18. C. Xia, M. Kumar, O. P. Kulkarni, M. N. Islam, F. L. Terry, Jr., M. J. Freeman, M. Poulain, and G. Mazé, "Midinfrared supercontinuum generation to 4.5 microm in ZBLAN fluoride fibers by nanosecond diode pumping," Opt. Lett. 31(17), 2553-2555 (2006).
19. C. Agger, C. Petersen, S. Dupont, H. Steffensen, J. K. Lyngsø, C. L. Thomsen, J. Thøgersen, S. R. Keiding, and O. Bang, "Supercontinuum generation in ZBLAN fibers - detailed comparison between measurement and simulation," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(4), 635-645 (2012).
20. 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 16(10), 7161-7168 (2008).
21. G. Wang, T. Jiang, C. Li, H. Yang, A. Wang, and Z. Zhang, "Octave-spanning spectrum of femtosecond Yb:fiber ring laser at 528 MHz repetition rate in microstructured tellurite fiber," Opt. Express 21(4), 4703-4708 (2013).
22. J. Price, W. Belardi, T. Monro, A. Malinowski, A. Piper, and D. Richardson, "Soliton transmission and supercontinuum generation in holey fiber, using a diode pumped Ytterbium fiber source," Opt. Express 10(8), 382-387 (2002).
23. M. Liao, X. Yan, G. Qin, C. Chaudhari, T. Suzuki, and Y. Ohishi, "A highly non-linear tellurite microstructure fiber with multi-ring holes for supercontinuum generation," Opt. Express 17(18), 15481-15490 (2009).
24. M. Liao, C. Chaudhari, G. Qin, X. Yan, T. Suzuki, and Y. Ohishi, "Tellurite microstructure fibers with small hexagonal core for supercontinuum generation," Opt. Express 17(14), 12174-12182 (2009).
25. D. Chao, G. Chang, J. L. Morse, F. X. Kärtner, and E. P. Ippen, "Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum Generation for an Er-doped Fiber Laser Frequency Comb at a 1 GHz Repetition Rate," in Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics 2010, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper CMN6.
26. J. J. Miret, E. Silvestre, and P. Andrés, "Octave-spanning ultraflat supercontinuum with soft-glass photonic crystal fibers," Opt. Express 17(11), 9197-9203 (2009).
27. R. Buczynski, H. T. Bookey, R. Stepien, J. Pniewski, D. Pysz, A. J. Waddie, A. K. Kar, and M. R. Taghizadeh, "Toward Mid-IR supercontinuum generation in bismuth-lead-galate glass based photonic crystal fibers," Proc. SPIE 8434, 84340Z, 84340Z-7 (2012).
28. R. Stepien, D. Pysz, I. Kujawa, and R. Buczynski, "Development of silicate and germanate glasses based on lead, bismuth and gallium oxides for midIR microstructured fibers and microoptical elements," Opt. Mater. 35(8), 1587-1594 (2013).
29. D. Lorenc, M. Aranyosiova, R. Buczynski, R. Stepien, I. Bugar, A. Vincze, and D. Velic, "Nonlinear refractive index of multicomponent glasses designed for fabrication of photonic crystal fibers," Appl. Phys. B 93(2-3), 531-538 (2008).
30. K. Krzempek, G. Sobon, P. Kaczmarek, and K. M. Abramski, "A sub-100 fs stretched-pulse 205 MHz repetition rate passively mode-locked Er-doped all-fiber laser," Laser Phys. Lett. 10(10), 105103 (2013).
31. G. Sobon, K. Krzempek, P. Kaczmarek, and K. M. Abramski, ""Eye-safe, high-repetition rate single-mode femtosecond CPA system at 1560 nm," Laser Phys. 23(7), 075104 (2013).
32. G. Sobon, J. Sotor, I. Pasternak, W. Strupinski, K. Krzempek, P. Kaczmarek, and K. M. Abramski, ""Chirped pulse amplification of a femtosecond Er-doped fiber laser mode-locked by a graphene saturable absorber," Laser Phys. Lett. 10(3), 035104 (2013).
33. J. C. Travers, M. H. Frosz, and J. M. Dudley, "Nonlinear fibre optics overview," in Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers, J. M. Dudley and J. R. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge University, 2010), Chap. 3.
34. M. H. Frosz, "Validation of input-noise model for simulations of supercontinuum generation and rogue waves," Opt. Express 18(14), 14778-14787 (2010).