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Liu H H, Yu Y, Song W, Jiang Q, Pang F F. Recent development of flat supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers. Opto-Electron Adv 2, 180020 (2019). doi: 10.29026/oea.2019.180020
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Recent development of flat supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers
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Abstract
Supercontinuum (SC) generation has attracted a significant scientific interest in the past decades due to its promising applications covering the fields of metrology, spectroscopy, defense, as well as medical treatments. To date, researchers are devoted to improving the spectral width and flatness of SC generation by using specialty optical fibers. The flatness of the spectrum is of importance because it can improve the accuracy of measurement in practical applications. This paper summarizes the theory of SC, the state of the art of flat SC generation using optical fiber including photonic crystal fibers, soft glass fibers as well as germania-doped fibers, and suggests the future research direction of flat SC light source.-
Keywords:
- specialty optical fibers /
- flatness /
- supercontinuum light source /
- nonlinear optics
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Figure 1.
Schematic diagram of supercontinuum generation.
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Figure 2.
Transmission spectra of selected optical fibers (based on the data presented in the available literature).
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Figure 3.
Measured dispersion curve and calculated mode field diameter (MFD) for PCF.
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Figure 4.
Spectra of supercontinuum generation by pumping PCF A in different pulse energy.
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Figure 5.
Simulated spectrogram of the pulse evolution at different transmission lengths in the ANDi PCF with projected temporal and spectral intensity profiles.
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Figure 6.
Experimental setup and spectra of spectrally flat supercontinuum generation.
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Figure 7.
Experimental setup and spectra for SC generation in the InF3 fiber.
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Figure 8.
(a) Experimental setup of supercontinuum generation in germania-core fiber. (b) Spectral comparison at different positions. (c) Dispersion and loss distribution curve. Figure reproduced from ref.41.
