Generation of a broadband continuum with high spectral coherence in tapered single-mode optical fibers

被引：82

作者：

Lu, F ^{[1
]}

Knox, WH ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Rochester, Inst Opt, Rochester, NY 14620 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2004年 / 12卷 / 02期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1364/OPEX.12.000347

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

By means of a delayed pulsed method, we carry out an experimental study of the mutual spectral coherence of supercontinuum trains generated through a tapered fiber. We observe a strong dependence of the spectral coherence on the input wavelength. Analysis of the interferograms shows that this is related to the robustness of different order soliton fission processes. A broadband continuum with 20dB wavelength from 500nm similar to 1300nm with high coherence (mean visibility g(12)similar to0.7) is obtained. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.

引用

收藏

页码：347 / 353

页数：7

相关论文

共 16 条

[1]

Agrawal G., 2001, Nonlinear Fibers Optics, V3rd

[2] Phase-locked white-light continuum pulses:: toward a universal optical frequency-comb synthesizer [J].

Bellini, M ;

Hänsch, TW .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2000, 25 (14) :1049-1051

[3] Supercontinuum generation in tapered fibers [J].

Birks, TA ;

Wadsworth, WJ ;

Russell, PS .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2000, 25 (19) :1415-1417

[4] Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber [J].

Corwin, KL ;

Newbury, NR ;

Dudley, JM ;

Coen, S ;

Diddams, SA ;

Weber, K ;

Windeler, RS .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2003, 90 (11) :4

[5] Direct link between microwave and optical frequencies with a 300 THz femtosecond laser comb [J].

Diddams, SA ;

Jones, DJ ;

Ye, J ;

Cundiff, ST ;

Hall, JL ;

Ranka, JK ;

Windeler, RS ;

Holzwarth, R ;

Udem, T ;

Hänsch, TW .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2000, 84 (22) :5102-5105

[6] Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers [J].

Dudley, JM ;

Coen, S .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2002, 27 (13) :1180-1182

[7] Nonlinear phase noise generated in air-silica microstructure fiber and its effect on carrier-envelope phase [J].

Fortier, TM ;

Ye, J ;

Cundiff, ST ;

Windeler, RS .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2002, 27 (06) :445-447

[8] Nonlinear propagation and continuum generation in microstructured optical fibers [J].

Gaeta, AL .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2002, 27 (11) :924-926

[9] Heat transfer modelling in CO2 laser processing of optical fibres [J].

Grellier, AJC ;

Zayer, NK ;

Pannell, CN .

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 1998, 152 (4-6) :324-328

[10] Experimental studies of the coherence of microstructure-fiber supercontinuum [J].

Gu, X ;

Kimmel, M ;

Shreenath, AP ;

Trebino, R ;

Dudley, JM ;

Coen, S ;

Windeler, RS .

OPTICS EXPRESS, 2003, 11 (21) :2697-2703