White light for the fast lane: supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion fibers for ultrafast photonics (presentation video)

Alexander M. Heidt

doi:10.1117/12.2030788

4 May 2014 White light for the fast lane: supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion fibers for ultrafast photonics (presentation video)

Alexander M. Heidt

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Proceedings Volume 8940, Optical Biopsy XII; 894010 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030788
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

This talk will give an overview of the unique properties of supercontinuum generation (SCG) in all-normal dispersion (ANDi) fibers pumped by ultrashort pulses and the possibilities they offer for ultrafast photonics applications. In contrast to their anomalously pumped counterparts, the SCG process in ANDi fibers conserves a single ultrashort pulse in the time domain, completely suppresses soliton formation and decay, and avoids noise-amplifying nonlinear dynamics. The resulting spectra combine the best of both worlds – the broad, more than octave-spanning bandwidths usually associated with anomalous dispersion pumping with the high temporal coherence, pulse-to-pulse stability and well-defined temporal pulse characteristics known from the normal dispersion regime. These characteristics are ideally suited for ultrafast photonics, and I will present application examples including the generation of high quality single-cycle pulses and their amplification, as well as ultrafast spectroscopy. This talk will also explore the exciting new possibilities enabled by extending this approach into the mid-IR spectral region using novel soft glass fiber designs.

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Alexander M. Heidt "White light for the fast lane: supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion fibers for ultrafast photonics (presentation video)", Proc. SPIE 8940, Optical Biopsy XII, 894010 (4 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030788

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