We report on the influence of the cut-off wavelength on the supercontinuum generation in which the spectral broadening occurs only on the blue side of the pump wavelength. As a consequence a limit to the extent of the supercontiuum is set and thus a way for tailoring the broadened spectrum according to a peculiar application is provided. The experiment consists of launching a train of femtosecond pulses into a 45-cm-long span of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by means of an offset pumping technique that can selectively excite higher-order modes. The PCF presents a wide range of wavelengths in which the fundamental mode experiences normal dispersion, whereas higher-order modes, LP11 and LP21 propagate in the anomalous dispersion regime, generating a supercontinuum based on the soliton fission mechanism. When exciting LP21 we are able to generate an almost purely visible supercontinuum even with pulse energies below 100 pJ. Our experimental results are compared with the numerical solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

Influence of the Cut-Off Wavelength on the Supercontinuum Generation in a Highly Non-linear Photonic Crystal Fiber

TARTARA, LUCA;DEGIORGIO, VITTORIO
2010-01-01

Abstract

We report on the influence of the cut-off wavelength on the supercontinuum generation in which the spectral broadening occurs only on the blue side of the pump wavelength. As a consequence a limit to the extent of the supercontiuum is set and thus a way for tailoring the broadened spectrum according to a peculiar application is provided. The experiment consists of launching a train of femtosecond pulses into a 45-cm-long span of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by means of an offset pumping technique that can selectively excite higher-order modes. The PCF presents a wide range of wavelengths in which the fundamental mode experiences normal dispersion, whereas higher-order modes, LP11 and LP21 propagate in the anomalous dispersion regime, generating a supercontinuum based on the soliton fission mechanism. When exciting LP21 we are able to generate an almost purely visible supercontinuum even with pulse energies below 100 pJ. Our experimental results are compared with the numerical solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
2010
9789048136339
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