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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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Theory of generation of new frequencies by mixing of solitons and dispersive waves in optical fibers
TL;DR: The wave number matching conditions for the generation of new spectral components in optical fibers pumped with a solitonic pulse and a weak continuous wave are derived and an analytical method of finding the amplitudes of the generated waves is presented.
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Nonlinear fiber optics: its history and recent progress [Invited]
TL;DR: In this article, the Schrodinger equation is used to discuss the nonlinear phenomenon of self-phase modulation that leads to the formation of solitons in the presence of anomalous dispersion.
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Ultra-low-loss optical delay line on a silicon chip
TL;DR: Using a wet etch process, 27 meter long waveguides having optical loss of less than 0.1dB/m are demonstrated and Resonator measurements show that this loss value can be reduced to 0.037 dB/m.
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Visibly “white” light generation in uniform photonic crystal fiber using a microchip laser
James M. Stone,Jonathan Knight +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, visibly white supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers using a sub ns pump source at 1064 nm was reported, and the spectra extend from below 400 nm to 2450 nm, some 50 nm further into the blue than previously reported spectra.
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Visible supercontinuum generation in a graded index multimode fiber pumped at 1064 nm.
Gisela Lopez-Galmiche,Z. Sanjabi Eznaveh,Mohammad Amin Eftekhar,J. E. Antonio Lopez,Logan G. Wright,Frank W. Wise,Demetrios N. Christodoulides,R. Amezcua Correa +7 more
TL;DR: Efficient supercontinuum generation that extends into the visible spectral range by pumping a low differential mode group delay graded index multimode fiber in the normal dispersion regime is observed and could pave the way for high brightness, high power, and compact, multi-octave continuum sources.
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Self-phase-modulation in silica optical fibers
Roger H. Stolen,Chinlon Lin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report measurements of frequency broadening due to self-phase modulation (SPM) in optical fibers, using single-mode silica-core fibers and mode-locked argon-laser pulses.
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Group-velocity dispersion in photonic crystal fibers.
TL;DR: The dispersion properties of photonic crystal fibers are calculated by expression of the modal field as a sum of localized orthogonal functions to derive uniform dispersion values for single mode and double mode fibers.
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Slab-coupled waveguides
TL;DR: The slab-coupled waveguide is a multidielectric waveguide that includes such special cases as the single-material fiber, the rib waveguide, and the strip-loaded film guide as mentioned in this paper.