Supercontinuum growth in a highly nonlinear fiber with a low-coherence semiconductor laser diode

被引：29

作者：

Abeeluck, AK ^{[1
]}

Headley, C ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] OFS Labs, Somerset, NJ 08873 USA

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2004年 / 85卷 / 21期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1063/1.1818332

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

A low-coherence, amplified, cw semiconductor laser diode is used as a pump to demonstrate supercontinuum (SC) generation in a highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fiber (HNLF). At a launch power of 1.6 W into the anomalous-dispersion regime of 5 km of HNLF, a SC extending from 1230 nm to greater than 1770 nm is achieved. The SC grows through the seeding effect of modulation instability that also converts the cw beam into short pulses so that subsequent spectral broadening becomes similar to pumping with pulsed laser sources. The experimental data show the manifestation of soliton self-frequency shift associated with a Stokes band as the launch power is increased. Amplification of the continuum noise with respect to the cw pump is also reported. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

引用

收藏

页码：4863 / 4865

页数：3

相关论文

共 13 条

[1] High-power supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fibers by use of a continuous-wave Raman fiber laser [J].

Abeeluck, AK ;

Headley, C ;

Jorgensen, CG .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2004, 29 (18) :2163-2165

[2]

Agrawal G., 2006, NONLINEAR FIBER OPTI

[3] MODE-PARTITION NOISE AND INTENSITY CORRELATION IN A 2-MODE SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER [J].

AGRAWAL, GP .

PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 1988, 37 (07) :2488-2494

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

Birks, TA ;

Wadsworth, WJ ;

Russell, PS .

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

[5] NOISE AMPLIFICATION IN DISPERSIVE NONLINEAR MEDIA [J].

CAVALCANTI, SB ;

AGRAWAL, GP .

PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 1995, 51 (05) :4086-4092

[6] Supercontinuum generation in air-silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping [J].

Dudley, JM ;

Provino, L ;

Grossard, N ;

Maillotte, H ;

Windeler, RS ;

Eggleton, BJ ;

Coen, S .

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 2002, 19 (04) :765-771

[7] Spectral broadening of femtosecond pulses into continuum radiation in microstructured fibers [J].

Genty, G ;

Lehtonen, M ;

Ludvigsen, H ;

Broeng, J ;

Kaivola, M .

OPTICS EXPRESS, 2002, 10 (20) :1083-1098

[8] Supercontinuum generation using a continuous-wave Raman fiber laser [J].

González-Herráez, M ;

Martín-López, S ;

Corredera, P ;

Hernanz, ML ;

Horche, PR .

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 2003, 226 (1-6) :323-328

[9] Experimental evidence for supercontinuum generation by fission of higher-order solitons in photonic fibers [J].

Herrmann, J ;

Griebner, U ;

Zhavoronkov, N ;

Husakou, A ;

Nickel, D ;

Knight, JC ;

Wadsworth, WJ ;

Russell, PSJ ;

Korn, G .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2002, 88 (17) :1739011-1739014

[10] DISCOVERY OF THE SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT [J].

MITSCHKE, FM ;

MOLLENAUER, LF .

OPTICS LETTERS, 1986, 11 (10) :659-661