Continuous wave supercontinuum generation

Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers

Volumn 9780521514804, Issue , 2010, Pages 142-177

  Travers, J C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER);

CONTINUUM GENERATIONS; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; NONLINEAR PROCESS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SHORT PULSE DURATION;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 84927112997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511750465.009     Document Type: Chapter

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35. Johnson D. J., Plankey F. W., Wineford J. D. (1974). Comparison of continuous wave and pulsed continuum sources for atomic fluorescence flame spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 46, 1892-1902.
36. Karpman V. (1967). Self-modulation of nonlinear plane waves in dispersive media. JETP Lett. 6, 277-279.
37. Karpman V. I. (1993). Radiation by solitons due to higher-order dispersion. Phys. Rev. E 47, 2073-2082.
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40. Kudlinski A., Bouwmans G., Quiquempois Y., Mussot A. (2008a). Experimental demonstration of multiwatt continuous-wave supercontinuum tailoring in photonic crystal fibers. App. Phys. Lett. 92, 141-103.
41. Kudlinski A., Cumberland B. A., Travers J. C., Bouwmans G., Quiquempois Y., Mus- sot A. (2008b). CW supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibres with two zero-dispersion wavelengths. 1st Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications 1055, 15-18.
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45. Martin-Lopez S., Abrardi L., Corredera P., Gonzalez-Herraez M., Mussot A. (2008). Spectrally-bounded continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths. Opt. Express 16, 6745-6755.
46. Martin-Lopez S., Carrasco-Sanz A., Corredera P., Abrardi L., Hernanz M. L., Gonzalez- Herraez M. (2006). Experimental investigation of the effect of pump incoherence on nonlinear pump spectral broadening and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation. Opt. Lett. 31, 3477-3479.
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48. Mussot A., Beaugeois M., Bouazaoui M., Sylvestre T. (2007). Tailoring CW supercontinuum generation in microstructured fibers with two-zero dispersion wavelengths. Opt. Express 15, 11553-11563.
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58. Prabhu M., Taniguchi A., Hirose S., Lu J., Musha M., Shirakawa A., Ueda K. (2003). Supercontinuum generation using Raman fiber laser. Appl. Phys. B 77, 205-210.
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81. Babin S. A., Churkin D. V., Ismagulov A. E., Kablukov S. I., Podivilov E. V. (2007). Four- wave-mixing-induced turbulent spectral broadening in a long Raman fiber laser. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 1729-1738.
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83. Beaud P., Hodel W., Zysset B., Weber H. (1987). Ultrashort pulse propagation, pulse breakup, and fundamental soliton formation in a single-mode optical fiber. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 23, 1938-1946.
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96. Genty G., Coen S., Dudley J. M. (2007). Fiber supercontinuum sources (Invited). J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 1771-1785.
97. 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.
98. Golovchenko E. A., Mamyshev P. V., Pilipetskii A. N., Dianov E. M. (1991). Numerical- analysis of the Raman-spectrum evolution and soliton pulse generation in single-mode fibers. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 1626-1632.
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100. Gorbach A. V., Skryabin D. V. (2007a). Light trapping in gravity-like potentials and expansion of supercontinuum spectra in photonic-crystal fibres. Nature 1, 653-657.
101. Gorbach A. V., Skryabin D. V. (2007b). Theory of radiation trapping by the accelerating solitons in optical fibers. Phys. Rev. A 76, 053-803.
102. Gordon J. P. (1986). Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift. Opt. Lett 11, 662-664.
103. Gouveia-Neto A. S., Gomes A. S. L., Taylor J. R. (1988). Femto soliton Raman generation. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 24, 332-340.
104. Hasegawa A., Brinkman W. F. (1980). Tunable coherent IR and FIR sources utilizing modulational instability. IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 16, 694-697.
105. Hsiung P. L., Chen Y., Ko T. H., Fujimoto J. G., de Matos C. J. S., Popov S. V., Taylor J. R., Gapontsev V. P. (2004). Optical coherence tomography using a continuous-wave, high- power, Raman continuum light source. Opt. Express 12, 5287-5295.
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107. Islam M. N., Sucha G., Bar-Joseph I., Wegener M., Gordon J. P., Chemla D. S. (1989b). Femtosecond distributed soliton spectrum in fibers. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 1149-1158.
108. Itoh H., Davis G. M., Sudo S. (1989). Continuous-wave-pumped modulational instability in an optical fiber. Opt. Lett. 14, 1368-1370.
109. Johnson D. J., Plankey F. W., Wineford J. D. (1974). Comparison of continuous wave and pulsed continuum sources for atomic fluorescence flame spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 46, 1892-1902.
110. Karpman V. (1967). Self-modulation of nonlinear plane waves in dispersive media. JETP Lett. 6, 277-279.
111. Karpman V. I. (1993). Radiation by solitons due to higher-order dispersion. Phys. Rev. E 47, 2073-2082.
112. Korneev N., Kuzin E. A., Ibarra-Escamilla B., Flores-Rosas M. B. J. A. (2008). Initial development of supercontinuum in fibers with anomalous dispersion pumped by nanosecond-long pulses. Opt. Express 16, 2636-2645.
113. Kudlinski A., Mussot A. (2008). Visible cw-pumped supercontinuum. Opt. Lett. 33, 2407-2409.
114. Kudlinski A., Bouwmans G., Quiquempois Y., Mussot A. (2008a). Experimental demonstration of multiwatt continuous-wave supercontinuum tailoring in photonic crystal fibers. App. Phys. Lett. 92, 141-103.
115. Kudlinski A., Cumberland B. A., Travers J. C., Bouwmans G., Quiquempois Y., Mus- sot A. (2008b). CW supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibres with two zero-dispersion wavelengths. 1st Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications 1055, 15-18.
116. Kudlinski A., George A. K., Knight J. C., Travers J. C., Rulkov A. B., Popov S. V., Taylor J. R. (2006). Zero-dispersion wavelength decreasing photonic crystal fibers for ultraviolet- extended supercontinuum generation. Opt. Express 14, 5715-5722.
117. Kutz J. N., Lynga C., Eggleton B. J. (2005). Enhanced supercontinuum generation through dispersion-management. Opt. Express 13, 3989-3998.
118. Lighthill M. (1965). Contributions to the theory of waves in non-linear dispersive systems. IMA J. Appl. Math. 1, 269-306.
119. Martin-Lopez S., Abrardi L., Corredera P., Gonzalez-Herraez M., Mussot A. (2008). Spectrally-bounded continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths. Opt. Express 16, 6745-6755.
120. Martin-Lopez S., Carrasco-Sanz A., Corredera P., Abrardi L., Hernanz M. L., Gonzalez- Herraez M. (2006). Experimental investigation of the effect of pump incoherence on nonlinear pump spectral broadening and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation. Opt. Lett. 31, 3477-3479.
121. Mussot A., Kudlinski A. (2009). 19.5 W CW-pumped supercontinuum source from 0.65 to 1.38 pm. Electron. Lett. 45, 29-30.
122. Mussot A., Beaugeois M., Bouazaoui M., Sylvestre T. (2007). Tailoring CW supercontinuum generation in microstructured fibers with two-zero dispersion wavelengths. Opt. Express 15, 11553-11563.
123. Mussot A., Kudlinski A., Beugnot J. C., Sylvestre T., Gonzalez-Herraez M., Bouwmans G. (2008). Extended blue side of flat supercontinuum generation in PCFs with a CW Yb fiber laser. 2008IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series, 178-179.
124. Mussot A., Lantz E., Maillotte H., Sylvestre T., Finot C., Pitois S. (2004). Spectral broadening of a partially coherent CW laser beam in single-mode optical fibers. Opt. Express 12, 2838-2843.
125. Nicholson J. W., Abeeluck A. K., Headley C., Yan M. F., Jorgensen C. G. (2003). Pulsed and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fibers. Appl. Phys. B 77, 211-218.
126. Nishizawa N., Goto T. (2002). Characteristics of pulse trapping by ultrashort soliton pulse in optical fibers across zerodispersion wavelength. Opt. Express 10, 1151-1160.
127. Persephonis P., Chernikov S. V., Taylor J. R. (1996). Cascaded CW fibre Raman laser source 1.6-1.9 pm. Electron. Lett. 32, 1486-1487.
128. Popov S. V., Champert P. A., Solodyankin M. A., Taylor J. R. (2002). Seeded fibre amplifiers and multi-watt average power continuum generation in holey fibers. Proceedings OSA Annual Meeting, 117.
129. Popov S. V., Taylor J. R., Rulkov A. B., Gapontsev V. P. (2004). Multi-watt, 1.48-2.05 pm range CW Raman-soliton continuum generation in highly-nonlinear fibres. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2, TuA6.
130. Povazay B., Bizheva K., Gasparoni S. et al. (2005). Ultrahigh resolution, functional OCT with all-fiber broadband Raman-continuum light-source. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 3, JThE34.
131. Prabhu M., Kim N. S., Ueda K. (2000). Ultra-broadband CW supercontinuum generation centered at 1483.4 nm from Brillouin/Raman fiber laser. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys 39, 291-293.
132. Prabhu M., Taniguchi A., Hirose S., Lu J., Musha M., Shirakawa A., Ueda K. (2003). Supercontinuum generation using Raman fiber laser. Appl. Phys. B 77, 205-210.
133. Rulkov A. B., Ferin A. A., Travers J. C., Popov S. V., Taylor J. R. (2008). Broadband, low intensity noise CW source for OCT at 1800 nm. Opt. Commun. 281, 154-156.
134. Saleh B. E. A., Teich M. C. (2007). Fundamentals of Photonics. Wiley-Interscience.
135. Skryabin D. V., Yulin A. V. (2005). Theory of generation of new frequencies by mixing of solitons and dispersive waves in optical fibers. Phys. Rev. E 72, 016-619.
136. Skryabin D. V., Luan F., Knight J. C., Russell P. S. J. (2003). Soliton self-frequency shift cancellation in photonic crystal fibers. Science 301, 1705-1708.
137. Tai K., Hasegawa A., Tomita A. (1986). Observation of modulational instability in optical fibers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 135-138.
138. Taylor J. R. (1992). Soliton-Raman effects. Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics; Optical Solitons - Theory and Experiment. Ed. J.R. Taylor, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 11, 409.
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