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Management of OH absorption in tellurite optical fibers and related supercontinuum generation
Inna Savelii,Frédéric Désévédavy,Jean-Charles Jules,Grégory Gadret,Julien Fatome,Bertrand Kibler,Hiroyasu Kawashima,Yasutake Ohishi,Frédéric Smektala +8 more
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In this paper, a suspended core microstructured fiber has been fabricated and pumped by nanojoule-level femtosecond pulses, thus resulting in more than 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinuum after a few centimeters of propagation.About:
This article is published in Optical Materials.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supercontinuum & Photonic-crystal fiber.read more
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Recent advances in soft optical glass fiber and fiber lasers
TL;DR: In this article, the basic requirements for the rare-earth (RE) ions and host matrix material for obtaining efficient NIR-MIR laser output, a review of the background of processing fundamentals on the fabrication and characterization for newly developed soft optical glass fibers, an outline of the key issues of platinum removal and the dehydration technique, effective doping of RE, and low splicing loss together with the recent theoretical and experimental results.
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High repetition rate mid-infrared supercontinuum generation from 13 to 53 μm in robust step-index tellurite fibers
Stefan Kedenburg,Clément Strutynski,Bertrand Kibler,Paul Froidevaux,Frédéric Désévédavy,Grégory Gadret,Jean-Charles Jules,Tobias Steinle,Florian Mörz,Andy Steinmann,Harald Giessen,Frédéric Smektala +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate broadband supercontinuum generation over two infrared octaves, spanning from 1.3 to 5.3 μm, with an output power of 150 mW in robust step-index tellurite fibers with core diameters between 3.5 and 4.3 µm.
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Supercontinuum Generation in Naturally Occurring Glass Sponges Spicules
Hermann Ehrlich,Manuel Maldonado,Andrew R. Parker,Yuri N. Kulchin,Jörg Schilling,Benjamin Köhler,U. Skrzypczak,Paul Simon,Henry M. Reiswig,Mikhail V. Tsurkan,Eike Brunner,S. S. Voznesenskiy,A. V. Bezverbny,Sergey S. Golik,Ivan G. Nagorny,Denis V. Vyalikh,Anna A. Makarova,Anna A. Makarova,Serguei L. Molodtsov,Serguei L. Molodtsov,Serguei L. Molodtsov,Kurt Kummer,Michael Mertig,Christiane Erler,Denis V. Kurek,Vasilii V. Bazhenov,Filipe Natalio,Alexander Kovalev,Stanislav N. Gorb,Allison L. Stelling,Johannes Heitmann,René Born,Dirk C. Meyer,Konstantin R. Tabachnick,Konstantin R. Tabachnick +34 more
TL;DR: The first natural material able to generate in laboratory conditions a supercontinuum similar to those known from man-made photonic crystal fibers is described in this article, which resides in siliceous 20-50 cm long spicules of the glass sponge Sericolophus hawaiicus.
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Coherent supercontinuum generation in tellurite glass regular lattice photonic crystal fibers
Mariusz Klimczak,Damian Michalik,Grzegorz Stepniewski,Tanvi Karpate,Jaroslaw Cimek,Xavier Forestier,Rafal Kasztelanic,Dariusz Pysz,Ryszard Stepien,Ryszard Buczynski +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of highly nonlinear tellurite glass photonic crystal fibers with engineered normal dispersion characteristics for coherent supercontinuum generation was reported.
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Fabrication and characterization of step-index tellurite fibers with varying numerical aperture for near- and mid-infrared nonlinear optics
Clément Strutynski,J. Picot-Clémente,Arnaud Lemière,Paul Froidevaux,Frédéric Désévédavy,Grégory Gadret,Jean-Charles Jules,Bertrand Kibler,Frédéric Smektala +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the fabrication process and characterization of tellurite, germanate, and Germanate-tellurite step-index fibers with different index contrasts are presented.
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Photonic-Crystal Fibers
TL;DR: The history, fabrication, theory, numerical modeling, optical properties, guidance mechanisms, and applications of photonic-crystal fibers are reviewed.
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Optical frequency synthesizer for precision spectroscopy
Ronald Holzwarth,Th. Udem,Theodor W. Hänsch,Jonathan Knight,William J. Wadsworth,P. St. J. Russell +5 more
TL;DR: The frequency comb generated by a femtosecond mode-locked laser is used and broadened to more than an optical octave in a photonic crystal fiber to realize a frequency chain that links a 10 MHz radio frequency reference phase-coherently in one step to the optical region.
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Tellurite glass: a new candidate for fiber devices
TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of R2O-ZnO-TeO2 glasses have been studied for their feasibility for fiber drawing and rare earth doping and a tellurite glass fiber with less than 1 dB/m loss has been made by the rod-in-tube method.
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Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography using continuum generation in an air-silica microstructure optical fiber.
Ingmar Hartl,Xingde Li,C. Chudoba,Ravi K. Ghanta,Tony H. Ko,James G. Fujimoto,Jinendra Kumar Ranka,Robert S. Windeler +7 more
TL;DR: Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) using continuum generation in an air-silica microstructure fiber as a low-coherence light source and imaging in biological tissue in vivo was demonstrated.
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Over 4000 nm bandwidth of mid-IR supercontinuum generation in sub-centimeter segments of highly nonlinear tellurite PCFs.
Peter Domachuk,N. A. Wolchover,Mark Cronin-Golomb,Aimin Wang,A.K. George,Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro,Jonathan Knight,Fiorenzo G. Omenetto +7 more
TL;DR: Broad bandwidth, mid-IR supercontinuum generation using a sub-cm (8 mm) length of highly nonlinear tellurite microstructured photonic crystal fiber, comparable or in excess of previously reported spectra for other nonlinear glass fiber formulations despite the significantly shorter fiber length is reported.