Supercontinuum generation in dispersion-varying fibers

Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers

Volumn 9780521514804, Issue , 2010, Pages 285-305

  Genty, G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DEGREE OF CONTROL; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; GENERATION PROCESS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 84927079374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511750465.013     Document Type: Chapter

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2. Birks T., Li Y. (1992). The shape of fiber tapers. J. Lightwave Technol. 10, 432-438.
3. Chang G., Norris T., Winful H. (2003). Optimization of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers for pulse compression. Opt. Lett. 28, 546-548.
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12. Genty G., Coen S., Dudley J. (2007). Fiber supercontinuum sources. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 1771-1785.
13. Genty G., Lehtonen M., Ludvigsen H. (2004). Effect of cross-phase modulation on supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers with sub-30 fs pulses. Opt. Express 12, 4614-4624.
14. Gorbach A. V., Skryabin D. V. (2007). Light trapping in gravity-like potentials and expansion of supercontinuum spectra in photonic-crystal fibres. Nature Photon. 1, 653-657.
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16. Hu J., Marks B. S., Menyuk C. R. et al. (2006). Pulse compression using a tapered microstructure optical fiber. Opt. Express 14, 4026-4036.
17. Kudlinski A., George A., Knight J. et al. (2006). Zero-dispersion wavelength decreasing photonic crystal fibers for ultraviolet-extended supercontinuum generation. Opt. Express 14, 5715-5722.
18. Kuehl H. H. (1988). Solitons on an axially nonuniform optical fiber. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 5, 709-713.
19. Kutz J., Lynga C., Eggleton B. (2005). Enhanced supercontinuum generation through dispersion-management. Opt. Express 13, 3989-3998.
20. Lou J. W., Xia T. J., Boyraz O., Shi C.-X., Nowak G. A., Islam M. N. (1997). Broader and flatter supercontinuum spectra in dispersion tailored fibers. Tech. Digest OFC, Paper TuH6, 32-34.
21. Lu F., Knox W. (2004). Generation of a broadband continuum with high spectral coherence in tapered single-mode optical fibers. Opt. Express 12, 347-353.
22. Lu F., Knox W. (2006). Generation, characterization, and application of broadband coherent femtosecond visible pulses in dispersion micromanaged holey fibers. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 1221-1227.
23. Lu F., Deng Y., Knox W. (2005). Generation of broadband femtosecond visible pulses in dispersion-micromanaged holey fibers. Opt. Lett. 30, 1566-1568.
24. Mamyshev P. V., Wigley P. G. J., Wilson J. et al. (1993). Adiabatic compression of Schrodinger solitons due to the combined perturbations of higher-order dispersion and delayed nonlinear response. Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 73-76.
25. Monerie M. (1983). Propagation in doubly-clad single mode fibers. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 18, 535-542.
26. Mori K., Morioka T., Saruwatari M. (1995). Ultrawide spectral range group-velocity dispersion measurement utilizing supercontinuum in an optical-fiber pumped by a 1.5 ixm compact laser source. IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 44, 712-715.
27. Mori K., Takara H., Kawanishi S., Saruwatari M., Morioka T. (1997). Flatly broadened supercontinuum spectrum generated in a dispersion decreasing fibre with convex dispersion profile. Electron. Lett. 33, 1806-1808.
28. Mori K., Takara H., Kawanishi S. (2001). Analysis and design of supercontinuum pulse generation in a single-mode optical fiber. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 1780-1792.
29. Morioka T., Kawanishi S., Mori K., Saruwatari M. (1994a). Nearly penalty-free, 4 ps supercontinuum Gbit/s pulse generation over 1535-1560 nm. Electron. Lett. 30, 790-791.
30. Morioka T., Kawanishi S., Mori K., Saruwatari M. (1994b). Transform-limited, femtosecond WDM pulse generation by spectral filtering of gigahertz supercontinuum. Electron. Lett. 30, 1166-1168.
31. Morioka T., Uchiyama K., Kawanishi S., Suzuki S., Saruwatari M. (1995).Multiwavelength picosecond pulse source with low jitter and high optical frequency stability based on 200 nm supercontinuum filtering. Electron. Lett. 31, 1064-1066.
32. Morioka T., Takara H., Kawanishi S. et al. (1996). 1 Tbit/s (100Gbit/s x 10 channel) OTDM/WDM transmission using a single supercontinuum WDM source. Electron. Lett. 32, 906-907.
33. Nakazawa M., Tamura K., Kubota H., Yoshida E. (1998). Coherence degradation in the process of supercontinuum generation in an optical fiber. Opt. Fiber Technol. 4, 215-223.
34. Nguyen H. C., Kuhlmey B. T., Magi E. C., Steel M. J., Domachuk P., Smith C. L., Eggleton B. J. (2005). Tapered photonic crystal fibres: properties, characterisation and applications. Appl. Phys. B. 81, 377-387.
35. Nicholson J. W., Abeeluck A. K., Headley C., Yan M. F., J0rgensen C. G. (2003). Pulsed and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fibers. Appl. Phys. B 77, 211-218.
36. Okuno T., Onishi M., Nishimura M. (1998). Generation of ultra-broad-band supercontinuum by dispersion-flattened and decreasing fiber. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 10, 72-74.
37. Okuno T., Onishi M., Kashiwada T., Ishikawa S., Nishimura M. (1999). Silica-based functional fibers with enhanced nonlinearity and their applications. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 5, 1385-1391.
38. Pal P., Knox W. H. (2007a). End-sealing short dispersion micromanaged tapered holey fibers by hole-collapsing. Opt. Express 15, 13531-13538.
39. Pal P., Knox W. H. (2007b). Self referenced Yb-fiber-laser frequency comb using a dispersion micromanaged tapered holey fiber. Opt. Express 15, 12161-12166.
40. Pelusi M. D., Liu H. F. (1997). Higher order soliton pulse compression in dispersion- decreasing optical fibers. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 33, 1430-1439.
41. Reeves W., Skryabin D., Biancalana F. et al. (2003). Transformation and control of ultrashort pulses in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal fibres. Nature 424, 511-515.
42. Saitoh K., Koshiba M. (2004). Highly nonlinear dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuum generation in a telecommunication window. Opt. Express 12, 2027-2032.
43. Sylvestre T., Vedadi A., Maillotte H., Vanholsbeeck F., Coen S. (2006). Supercontinuum generation using continuous-wave multiwavelength pumping and dispersion management. Opt. Lett. 31, 2036-2038.
44. Town G. E., Lizier J. T. (2001). Tapered holey fibers for spot-size and numerical aperture conversion. Opt. Lett. 26, 1042-1044.
45. Travers J. C., Taylor J. R. (2009). Soliton trapping of dispersive waves in tapered optical fibers. Opt. Lett. 34, 115-117.
46. Travers J. C., Popov S. V., Taylor J. R. (2005). Extended blue supercontinuum generation in cascaded holey fibers. Opt. Lett. 30, 3132-3134.
47. Travers J. C., Stone J. M., Rulkov A. B. et al. (2007). Optical pulse compression in dispersion decreasing photonic crystal fiber. Opt. Express 15, 13203-13211.
48. Tse M., Horak P., Poletti F. et al. (2006a). Supercontinuum generation at 1.0 pm in holey fibers with dispersion flattened profiles. Opt. Express 14, 4445-4451.
49. Tse M., Horak P., Price J. et al. (2006b). Pulse compression at 1.0 pm in dispersion- decreasing holey fibers. Opt. Lett. 31, 3504-3506.
50. Tse M., Horak P., Poletti F. et al. (2008). Designing tapered holey fibers for soliton compression. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 44, 192-198.
51. Wadsworth W., Witkowska A., Leon-Saval S. et al. (2005). Hole inflation and tapering of stock photonic crystal fibres. Opt. Express. 13, 6541-6549.
52. Xiong C., Witkowska A., Leon-Saval S., Birks T., Wadsworth W. (2006). Enhanced visible continuum generation from a microchip 1064 nm laser. Opt. Express 14, 6188-6193.
53. Yulin A., Skryabin D., Russell P. (2004). Four-wave mixing of linear waves and solitons in fibers with higher-order dispersion. Opt. Lett. 29, 2411-2413.
54. Abrardi L., Martin-Lopez S., Carrasco-Sanz A., Corredera P., Hemanz M. L., Gonzalez- Herraez M. (2007). Optimized all-fiber supercontinuum source at 1.3 μm generated in a stepwise dispersion-decreasing-fiber arrangement. J. Light-wave Technol. 25, 2098-2102.
55. Birks T., Li Y. (1992). The shape of fiber tapers. J. Lightwave Technol. 10, 432-438.
56. Chang G., Norris T., Winful H. (2003). Optimization of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers for pulse compression. Opt. Lett. 28, 546-548.
57. Chen C.-M., Kelley P. L. (2002). Nonlinear pulse compression in optical fibers: scaling laws and numerical analysis. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 1961-1967.
58. Chernikov S. V., Dianov E. M., Richardson D. J., Payne D. N. (1993). Soliton pulse compression in dispersion-decreasing fiber. Opt. Lett. 18, 476-478.
59. Dianov E. M., Nikonova Z. S., Prokhorov A. M., Serkin V. N. (1986). Optimal compression of multi-soliton pulses in optical fibers. Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 12, 756-760 [Sov. Tech. Phys. Lett. 12, 311-313 (1986)].
60. Dudley J. M., Coen S. (2004). Fundamental limits to few-cycle pulse generation from compression of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal fiber. Opt. Express 12, 2423-2428.
61. Dudley J. M., Genty G., Coen S. (2006). Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber. Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 1135-1184.
62. Falk P., Frosz M., Bang O. (2005). Supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths tapered to normal dispersion at all wavelengths. Opt. Express 13, 7535-7540.
63. Fatemi F. (2002). Analysis of nonadiabatically compressed pulses from dispersion- decreasing fiber. Opt. Lett. 27, 1637-1639.
64. Frosz M. H., Falk P., Bang O. (2005). The role of the second zero-dispersion wavelength in generation of supercontinua and bright-bright soliton-pairs across the zero-dispersion wavelength. Opt. Express 13, 6181-6192.
65. Genty G., Coen S., Dudley J. (2007). Fiber supercontinuum sources. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 1771-1785.
66. Genty G., Lehtonen M., Ludvigsen H. (2004). Effect of cross-phase modulation on supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers with sub-30 fs pulses. Opt. Express 12, 4614-4624.
67. Gorbach A. V., Skryabin D. V. (2007). Light trapping in gravity-like potentials and expansion of supercontinuum spectra in photonic-crystal fibres. Nature Photon. 1, 653-657.
68. Hilligsoe K., Andersen T., Paulsen H. et al. (2004). Supercontinuum generation in aphotonic crystal fiber with two zero dispersion wavelengths. Opt. Express 12, 1045-1054.
69. Hu J., Marks B. S., Menyuk C. R. et al. (2006). Pulse compression using a tapered microstructure optical fiber. Opt. Express 14, 4026-4036.
70. Kudlinski A., George A., Knight J. et al. (2006). Zero-dispersion wavelength decreasing photonic crystal fibers for ultraviolet-extended supercontinuum generation. Opt. Express 14, 5715-5722.
71. Kuehl H. H. (1988). Solitons on an axially nonuniform optical fiber. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 5, 709-713.
72. Kutz J., Lynga C., Eggleton B. (2005). Enhanced supercontinuum generation through dispersion-management. Opt. Express 13, 3989-3998.
73. Lou J. W., Xia T. J., Boyraz O., Shi C.-X., Nowak G. A., Islam M. N. (1997). Broader and flatter supercontinuum spectra in dispersion tailored fibers. Tech. Digest OFC, Paper TuH6, 32-34.
74. Lu F., Knox W. (2004). Generation of a broadband continuum with high spectral coherence in tapered single-mode optical fibers. Opt. Express 12, 347-353.
75. Lu F., Knox W. (2006). Generation, characterization, and application of broadband coherent femtosecond visible pulses in dispersion micromanaged holey fibers. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 1221-1227.
76. Lu F., Deng Y., Knox W. (2005). Generation of broadband femtosecond visible pulses in dispersion-micromanaged holey fibers. Opt. Lett. 30, 1566-1568.
77. Mamyshev P. V., Wigley P. G. J., Wilson J. et al. (1993). Adiabatic compression of Schrodinger solitons due to the combined perturbations of higher-order dispersion and delayed nonlinear response. Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 73-76.
78. Monerie M. (1983). Propagation in doubly-clad single mode fibers. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 18, 535-542.
79. Mori K., Morioka T., Saruwatari M. (1995). Ultrawide spectral range group-velocity dispersion measurement utilizing supercontinuum in an optical-fiber pumped by a 1.5 ixm compact laser source. IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 44, 712-715.
80. Mori K., Takara H., Kawanishi S., Saruwatari M., Morioka T. (1997). Flatly broadened supercontinuum spectrum generated in a dispersion decreasing fibre with convex dispersion profile. Electron. Lett. 33, 1806-1808.
81. Mori K., Takara H., Kawanishi S. (2001). Analysis and design of supercontinuum pulse generation in a single-mode optical fiber. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 1780-1792.
82. Morioka T., Kawanishi S., Mori K., Saruwatari M. (1994a). Nearly penalty-free, 4 ps supercontinuum Gbit/s pulse generation over 1535-1560 nm. Electron. Lett. 30, 790-791.
83. Morioka T., Kawanishi S., Mori K., Saruwatari M. (1994b). Transform-limited, femtosecond WDM pulse generation by spectral filtering of gigahertz supercontinuum. Electron. Lett. 30, 1166-1168.
84. Morioka T., Uchiyama K., Kawanishi S., Suzuki S., Saruwatari M. (1995).Multiwavelength picosecond pulse source with low jitter and high optical frequency stability based on 200 nm supercontinuum filtering. Electron. Lett. 31, 1064-1066.
85. Morioka T., Takara H., Kawanishi S. et al. (1996). 1 Tbit/s (100Gbit/s x 10 channel) OTDM/WDM transmission using a single supercontinuum WDM source. Electron. Lett. 32, 906-907.
86. Nakazawa M., Tamura K., Kubota H., Yoshida E. (1998). Coherence degradation in the process of supercontinuum generation in an optical fiber. Opt. Fiber Technol. 4, 215-223.
87. Nguyen H. C., Kuhlmey B. T., Magi E. C., Steel M. J., Domachuk P., Smith C. L., Eggleton B. J. (2005). Tapered photonic crystal fibres: properties, characterisation and applications. Appl. Phys. B. 81, 377-387.
88. Nicholson J. W., Abeeluck A. K., Headley C., Yan M. F., J0rgensen C. G. (2003). Pulsed and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fibers. Appl. Phys. B 77, 211-218.
89. Okuno T., Onishi M., Nishimura M. (1998). Generation of ultra-broad-band supercontinuum by dispersion-flattened and decreasing fiber. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 10, 72-74.
90. Okuno T., Onishi M., Kashiwada T., Ishikawa S., Nishimura M. (1999). Silica-based functional fibers with enhanced nonlinearity and their applications. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 5, 1385-1391.
91. Pal P., Knox W. H. (2007a). End-sealing short dispersion micromanaged tapered holey fibers by hole-collapsing. Opt. Express 15, 13531-13538.
92. Pal P., Knox W. H. (2007b). Self referenced Yb-fiber-laser frequency comb using a dispersion micromanaged tapered holey fiber. Opt. Express 15, 12161-12166.
93. Pelusi M. D., Liu H. F. (1997). Higher order soliton pulse compression in dispersion- decreasing optical fibers. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 33, 1430-1439.
94. Reeves W., Skryabin D., Biancalana F. et al. (2003). Transformation and control of ultrashort pulses in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal fibres. Nature 424, 511-515.
95. Saitoh K., Koshiba M. (2004). Highly nonlinear dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuum generation in a telecommunication window. Opt. Express 12, 2027-2032.
96. Sylvestre T., Vedadi A., Maillotte H., Vanholsbeeck F., Coen S. (2006). Supercontinuum generation using continuous-wave multiwavelength pumping and dispersion management. Opt. Lett. 31, 2036-2038.
97. Town G. E., Lizier J. T. (2001). Tapered holey fibers for spot-size and numerical aperture conversion. Opt. Lett. 26, 1042-1044.
98. Travers J. C., Taylor J. R. (2009). Soliton trapping of dispersive waves in tapered optical fibers. Opt. Lett. 34, 115-117.
99. Travers J. C., Popov S. V., Taylor J. R. (2005). Extended blue supercontinuum generation in cascaded holey fibers. Opt. Lett. 30, 3132-3134.
100. Travers J. C., Stone J. M., Rulkov A. B. et al. (2007). Optical pulse compression in dispersion decreasing photonic crystal fiber. Opt. Express 15, 13203-13211.
101. Tse M., Horak P., Poletti F. et al. (2006a). Supercontinuum generation at 1.0 pm in holey fibers with dispersion flattened profiles. Opt. Express 14, 4445-4451.
102. Tse M., Horak P., Price J. et al. (2006b). Pulse compression at 1.0 pm in dispersion- decreasing holey fibers. Opt. Lett. 31, 3504-3506.
103. Tse M., Horak P., Poletti F. et al. (2008). Designing tapered holey fibers for soliton compression. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 44, 192-198.
104. Wadsworth W., Witkowska A., Leon-Saval S. et al. (2005). Hole inflation and tapering of stock photonic crystal fibres. Opt. Express. 13, 6541-6549.
105. Xiong C., Witkowska A., Leon-Saval S., Birks T., Wadsworth W. (2006). Enhanced visible continuum generation from a microchip 1064 nm laser. Opt. Express 14, 6188-6193.
106. Yulin A., Skryabin D., Russell P. (2004). Four-wave mixing of linear waves and solitons in fibers with higher-order dispersion. Opt. Lett. 29, 2411-2413.