Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 38, Issue 7, 705003(2011)

Experimental Research on Supercontinuum Generation from Nanosecond Pulse and Conventional Single Mode Fiber

Liu Chu1,2、*, Eric Rees3, Toni Laurila3, Jian Shuisheng1,2, and Clemens Kaminski3,4
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  • 2[in Chinese]
  • 3Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, CB2 3RA, UK
  • 4SAOT School of Advanced Optical Technologies, Friedrich Alexander University, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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    1064 nm nanosecond pump pulses and conventional single mode fibers are adopted to generate supercontinuum whose spectrum covers from 700 nm to above 1750 nm. In the fiber′s normal dispersion regime, the spectrum initially shows multi Raman Stokes lines. As pump power or fiber length increases, Stokes energies enter into anomalous dispersion regime and form optical solitons, which make the following spectral broadening to be dominated by soliton-related nonlinear effects. We show experimentally that the supercontinuum generates with 28 m fiber length has flat spectral structure (in less than 3 dB flatness), high spectral density (0.4 mW/nm in average) and single mode output in 1260 nm to 1750 nm regime.

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    Liu Chu, Eric Rees, Toni Laurila, Jian Shuisheng, Clemens Kaminski. Experimental Research on Supercontinuum Generation from Nanosecond Pulse and Conventional Single Mode Fiber[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2011, 38(7): 705003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical communication

    Received: Jan. 30, 2011

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jun. 14, 2011

    The Author Email: Chu Liu (07111018@bjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl201138.0705003

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