Temporal and noise characteristics of continuous-wave-pumped continuum generation in holey fibers around 1300nm
- 4 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 85 (14) , 2706-2708
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1801175
Abstract
The noise of continuous-wave-pumped broadband continua generated in a holey fiber is characterized in two different all-fiber configurations. An amplified spontaneous emission seeded ytterbium-doped fiber source and fiber Bragg grating based Yb laser were employed to initiate Raman-soliton continuum generation in 100 m of anomalously dispersive holey fiber with spectral width of 300 nm and spectral power density over 10 m W / nm . Low noise operation makes these sources suitable for optical coherence tomography applications.Keywords
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