Lin, Ja-Hon and Lee, Yin-Wen and Lin, Ting-Chun and Lai, Beng-Cheng and Pal, Mrinmay and Das, Shyamal and Dhar, Anirban and Paul, Mukul Chandra (2014) Near-infrared supercontinnum generation in single-mode nonlinear Yb3+-doped fiber amplifier. Optics Express, 22 (13). pp. 16130-16138. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract

Near-infrared supercontinnum (SC) generation, accompanied with several emission bands at visible and ultraviolet, is experimentally investigated in an all-fiber single-mode Yb3+-doped silica fiber MOPA. The seed is an all-normal-dispersion mode-locked Yb3+-doped single-mode fiber laser using a nonlinear polarization evolution mechanism. With the pump power of several hundreds of milliwatts, SC spanning of 1010 nm to 1600 nm was generated in a 20-m single-mode germano-zirconia-silica Yb3+-doped fiber amplifier. The intensive nonlinear effects, namely stimulated Raman scattering, four wave mixing, and self-phase modulation, enable the SC generation in the small-core fiber amplifier without the use of photonic crystal fibers or tapered fibers. Such a compact and cost-effective SC generation system enables applications in optical coherent tomography, optical metrology, and nonlinear microscopy. (C)2014 Optical Society of America

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Processing Science
Divisions:	Fiber Optics and Photonics
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2014 06:25
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2014 06:25
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/2599

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