Experimental performance comparison for various continuous-wave supercontinuum schemes: ring cavity and single pass structures

被引：16

作者：

Lee, JH ^{[1
]}

Kikuchi, K ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Tokyo, Adv Sci & Technol Res Ctr, Meguro Ku, Tokyo 1538904, Japan

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2005年 / 13卷 / 13期

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D O I：

10.1364/OPEX.13.004848

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We experimentally perform a comparative study on performance of three different schemes for generation of continuous-wave (CW) supercontinuum by use of nonlinear optical fiber, i.e. our proposed erbium-doped fiber (EDF)-based ring laser scheme incorporating a highly-nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber ( HNL-DSF), the Raman gain-based ring laser scheme incorporating an HNL-DSF, and the conventional scheme based on pump beam single propagation through an HNL-DSF. The three schemes show different physical mechanisms of supercontinuum evolution from a CW pump beam. In particular, our proposed EDF-based ring laser configuration is found to have a better relative intensity noise performance than the other two schemes. (C) 2005 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：4848 / 4853

页数：6

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