Supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fiber with two zero dispersion wavelengths
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- 22 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 12 (6) , 1045-1054
- https://doi.org/10.1364/opex.12.001045
Abstract
We demonstrate supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with two closely lying zero dispersion wavelengths. The special dispersion of the fiber has a profound influence on the supercontinuum which is generated through self-phase modulation and phasematched four-wave mixing and not soliton fission as in the initial photonic crystal fibers. The supercontinuum has high spectral density and is extremely independent of the input pulse over a wide range of input pulse parameters. Simulations show that the supercontinuum can be compressed to ultrashort pulses.Keywords
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