Sub-two-cycle soliton self-compression in a tapered tellurite photonic crystal fiber

Amine Ben Salem; Rim Cherif; Mourad Zghal

doi:10.1117/12.922273

15 May 2012 Sub-two-cycle soliton self-compression in a tapered tellurite photonic crystal fiber

Amine Ben Salem, Rim Cherif, Mourad Zghal

Proceedings Volume 8434, Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI; 84340B (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922273
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We design tellurite tapered photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC) generation in the few-optical-cycle regime. We show that we can move the zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) beyond 2 μm toward mid-IR wavelength region by tapering tellurite PCFs. We demonstrate the generation of sub-two-cycle soliton selfcompressed pulses from 200 fs to 19.1 fs and show more than one octave-spanning coherent SC, extending from 1675 to 3950 nm, generated in 8 mm-long tapered tellurite PCF with low input pulse energy of 1 nJ at 2.9 μm.

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Amine Ben Salem, Rim Cherif, and Mourad Zghal "Sub-two-cycle soliton self-compression in a tapered tellurite photonic crystal fiber", Proc. SPIE 8434, Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI, 84340B (15 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922273

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