Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion
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  • 英文篇名:Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion
  • 作者:CHUNLEI ; HUANG ; MEISONG ; LIAO ; WANJUN ; BI ; XIA ; LI ; LILI ; HU ; LONG ; ZHANG ; LONGFEI ; WANG ; GUANSHI ; QIN ; TIANFENG ; XUE ; DANPING ; CHEN ; WEIQING ; GAO
  • 英文作者:CHUNLEI HUANG;MEISONG LIAO;WANJUN BI;XIA LI;LILI HU;LONG ZHANG;LONGFEI WANG;GUANSHI QIN;TIANFENG XUE;DANPING CHEN;WEIQING GAO;Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser,Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics,College of Electronic Science and Engineering,Jilin University;School of Electronic Science & Applied Physics,Hefei University of Technology;
  • 中文刊名:GZXJ
  • 英文刊名:光子学研究(英文版)
  • 机构:Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser,Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics,College of Electronic Science and Engineering,Jilin University;School of Electronic Science & Applied Physics,Hefei University of Technology;
  • 出版日期:2018-06-10
  • 出版单位:Photonics Research
  • 年:2018
  • 期:v.6
  • 基金:National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61475171,11374084,61705244,61307056);; Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(17ZR1433900,17ZR1434200)
  • 语种:英文;
  • 页:GZXJ201806018
  • 页数:8
  • CN:06
  • ISSN:31-2126/O4
  • 分类号:123-130
摘要
High flatness, wide bandwidth, and high-coherence properties of supercontinuum(SC) generation in fibers are crucial in many applications. It is challenging to achieve SC spectra in a combination of the properties, since special dispersion profiles are required, especially when pump pulses with duration over 100 fs are employed. We propose an all-solid microstructured fiber composed only of hexagonal glass elements. The optimized fiber possesses an ultraflat all-normal dispersion profile, covering a wide wavelength interval of approximately 1.55 μm. An SC spectrum spanning from approximately 1030 to 2030 nm(corresponding to nearly one octave) with flatness<3 dB is numerically generated in the fiber with 200 fs pump pulses at 1.55 μm. The results indicate that the broadband ultraflat SC sources can be all-fiber and miniaturized due to commercially achievable 200-fs fiber lasers. Moreover, the SC pulses feature high coherence and a single pulse in the time domain, which can be compressed to 13.9-fs pulses with high quality even for simple linear chirp compensation. The Fourier-limited pulse duration of the spectrum is 3.19 fs, corresponding to only 0.62 optical cycles.
        High flatness, wide bandwidth, and high-coherence properties of supercontinuum(SC) generation in fibers are crucial in many applications. It is challenging to achieve SC spectra in a combination of the properties, since special dispersion profiles are required, especially when pump pulses with duration over 100 fs are employed. We propose an all-solid microstructured fiber composed only of hexagonal glass elements. The optimized fiber possesses an ultraflat all-normal dispersion profile, covering a wide wavelength interval of approximately 1.55 μm. An SC spectrum spanning from approximately 1030 to 2030 nm(corresponding to nearly one octave) with flatness<3 dB is numerically generated in the fiber with 200 fs pump pulses at 1.55 μm. The results indicate that the broadband ultraflat SC sources can be all-fiber and miniaturized due to commercially achievable 200-fs fiber lasers. Moreover, the SC pulses feature high coherence and a single pulse in the time domain, which can be compressed to 13.9-fs pulses with high quality even for simple linear chirp compensation. The Fourier-limited pulse duration of the spectrum is 3.19 fs, corresponding to only 0.62 optical cycles.
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