Stable Supercontinuum Generation in Short Lengths of Conventional Dispersion-Shifted Fiber
Applied Optics, Vol. 38, Issue 36, pp. 7364-7369 (1999)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.38.007364
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Abstract
By propagating 500-fs pulses through 2.5 m of standard fiber followed by 2 m of dispersion-shifted fiber, we generated >200 nm of spectral continuum between 1430 and 1630 nm, which is flat to less than ∓0.5 dB over more than 60 nm. Pulses obtained by filtering the continuum show no increase in timing jitter over the source laser and are pedestal free to >28 dB, indicating excellent stability and coherence. We show that the second- and third-order dispersions of the continuum fiber and self-phase modulation are primarily responsible for the continuum generation and spectral shaping and found close agreement between simulations and experiments.
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OCIS Codes
(060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics and optical communications
(060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics
(060.2380) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sources and detectors
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
Citation
George A. Nowak, Jaeyoun Kim, and Mohammed N. Islam, "Stable Supercontinuum Generation in Short Lengths of Conventional Dispersion-Shifted Fiber," Appl. Opt. 38, 7364-7369 (1999)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-38-36-7364
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