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Visible continuum generation in air–silica microstructure optical fibers with anomalous dispersion at 800 nm
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In this article, the authors demonstrate experimentally that air-silica microstructure optical fibers can exhibit anomalous dispersion at visible wavelengths, and exploit this feature to generate an optical continuum 550 THz in width, extending from the violet to the infrared.Abstract:
We demonstrate experimentally for what is to our knowledge the first time that air–silica microstructure optical fibers can exhibit anomalous dispersion at visible wavelengths. We exploit this feature to generate an optical continuum 550 THz in width, extending from the violet to the infrared, by propagating pulses of 100-fs duration and kilowatt peak powers through a microstructure fiber near the zero-dispersion wavelength.read more
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Remote calibration of end standards using a low-coherence tandem interferometer with an optical fiber
Akiko Hirai,Hirokazu Matsumoto +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a low-coherence tandem interferometer and a single-mode optical fiber for remote measurement of length up to 10 mm with a standard deviation of 1.4 μm.
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Pushing frontiers in Carrier-Envelope Phase stabilization of ultrashort laser pulses
TL;DR: In this article, the carrier-envelope phase stabilization of ultra-kurzen laser pulses is investigated, where the authors show that the detection process is influenced by technical noise sources, which arise especially in used nonlinear interferometers.
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Supercontinuum generation through cascaded four-wave mixing in photonic-crystal fibers: When picoseconds do it better
TL;DR: By numerically solving the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation, the authors provides a comparative analysis of spectral and temporal transformations of pico and femtosecond laser pulses in a guided mode with a generic dispersion profile typical of a photonic-crystal fiber.
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Solid-state carrier-envelope-phase noise measurements with intrinsically balanced detection
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Characterization of nanoscale features in tapered fractal and photonic crystal fibers
TL;DR: The internal structure of nanostructured air-silica fiber probes have been characterized using a combined focused ion beam and scanning electron microscopy technique and results confirm structural inferences made in previous publications.
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