Photonic Sensors, Volume. 9, Issue 4, 302(2019)

Spectrally Flat Supercontinuum Generation in a ZBLAN Fiber Pumped by Erbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

Huanhuan LIU, Ye YU, Wei SONG, Qiao JIANG, Fufei PANG*, and and Tingyun WANG
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  • Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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    We have experimentally demonstrated the flat supercontinuum (SC) generation using a 10-m-long ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN) fluoride fiber pumped by an erbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser incorporating carbon-nanotube-based saturable absorbers. In order to improve the spectral flatness of SC, the standardized single-mode fiber with different lengths is connected to the output of the mode-locked fiber laser before the pulse amplification. The generated SC with ZBLAN fiber exhibits the best spectral flatness with fluctuation less than 1.29 dB over the wavelength of 1571.8 nm - 1803.1 nm, showing potential applications in optical sensing.

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    Huanhuan LIU, Ye YU, Wei SONG, Qiao JIANG, Fufei PANG, and Tingyun WANG. Spectrally Flat Supercontinuum Generation in a ZBLAN Fiber Pumped by Erbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2019, 9(4): 302

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    Paper Information

    Category: Regular

    Received: Nov. 28, 2018

    Accepted: Mar. 23, 2019

    Published Online: Dec. 5, 2019

    The Author Email: PANG Fufei (ffpang@shu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-019-0552-y

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