RGB generation by four-wave mixing in small-core holey fibers

Peter Horak; Pascal Dupriez; Francesco Poletti; Marco N. Petrovich; Yoonchan Jeong; Johan Nilsson; David J. Richardson; David N. Payne

doi:10.1117/12.738483

17 September 2007 RGB generation by four-wave mixing in small-core holey fibers

Peter Horak, Pascal Dupriez, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich, Yoonchan Jeong, Johan Nilsson, David J. Richardson, David N. Payne

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Proceedings Volume 6698, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications; 66980P (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.738483
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We report the generation of white light comprising red, green, and blue spectral bands from a frequency-doubled fiber laser in submicron-sized cores of microstructured holey fibers. Picosecond pulses of green light are launched into a single suspended core of a silica holey fiber where energy is transferred by an efficient four-wave mixing process into a red and blue sideband whose wavelengths are fixed by birefringent phase matching due to a slight asymmetry of the structure arising during the fiber fabrication. Numerical models of the fiber structure and of the nonlinear processes confirm our interpretation. Finally, we discuss power scaling and limitations of this white light source.

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Peter Horak, Pascal Dupriez, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich, Yoonchan Jeong, Johan Nilsson, David J. Richardson, and David N. Payne "RGB generation by four-wave mixing in small-core holey fibers", Proc. SPIE 6698, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications, 66980P (17 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.738483

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