Highly nonlinear tapered photonic crystal fibers for broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in the few-optical-cycle regime

Amine Ben Salem; Rim Cherif; Mourad Zghal

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.10.105008

3 October 2012 Highly nonlinear tapered photonic crystal fibers for broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in the few-optical-cycle regime

Amine Ben Salem, Rim Cherif, Mourad Zghal

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 10, 105008 (October 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.10.105008

Abstract

We propose a design of tellurite and As2S3-based chalcogenide tapered photonic crystal fibers (TPCF) for broadband coherent mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC) generation in the few-optical-cycle regime. We optimize the soliton self-compression by injecting pre-chirped femtosecond pulses. More than one octave-spanning SC spectra were generated in 8 mm-long in both tellurite and chalcogenide TPCF with low input pulse energies of 1 nJ and 100 pJ at pump wavelengths of 2.9 and 4.7 μm, respectively.

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Amine Ben Salem, Rim Cherif, and Mourad Zghal "Highly nonlinear tapered photonic crystal fibers for broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in the few-optical-cycle regime," Optical Engineering 51(10), 105008 (3 October 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.10.105008

Published: 3 October 2012

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