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About: Supercontinuum is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7071 publications have been published within this topic receiving 127671 citations.


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TL;DR: This work presents a CMOS-compatible, Q-switched mode-locked integrated laser operating at 1.2 GHz, allowing for easy co-integration of numerous other photonic devices such as supercontinuum generation and frequency doublers which together potentially enable fully on-chip frequency comb generation.
Abstract: We present a CMOS-compatible, Q-switched mode-locked integrated laser operating at 1.9 µm with a compact footprint of 23.6 × 0.6 × 0.78mm. The Q-switching rate is 720 kHz, the mode-locking rate is 1.2 GHz, and the optical bandwidth is 17nm, which is sufficient to support pulses as short as 215 fs. The laser is fabricated using a silicon nitride on silicon dioxide 300-mm wafer platform, with thulium-doped Al2O3 glass as a gain material deposited over the silicon photonics chip. An integrated Kerr-nonlinearity-based artificial saturable absorber is implemented in silicon nitride. A broadband (over 100 nm) dispersion-compensating grating in silicon nitride provides sufficient anomalous dispersion to compensate for the normal dispersion of the other laser components, enabling femtosecond-level pulses. The laser has no off-chip components with the exception of the optical pump, allowing for easy co-integration of numerous other photonic devices such as supercontinuum generation and frequency doublers which together potentially enable fully on-chip frequency comb generation.

42 citations

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TL;DR: The proposed pentagonal photonic crystal fiber with high birefringence, large flattened negative dispersion, and high nonlinearity would have important applications in polarization maintaining transmission systems, residual dispersion compensation, supercontinuum generation, and the design of widely tunable wavelength converters based on four-wave mixing.
Abstract: Novel pentagonal photonic crystal fiber with high birefringence, large flattened negative dispersion, and high nonlinearity is proposed. The dispersion and birefringence properties of this structure are simulated and analyzed numerically based on the full vector finite element method (FEM). Numerical results indicate that the fiber obtains a large average dispersion of -611.9 ps/nm/km over 1,460-1,625 nm and -474 ps/nm/km over 1425-1675 nm wavelength bands for two kinds of optimized designs, respectively. In addition, the proposed PCF shows a high birefringence of 1.67×10-2 and 1.75×10-2 at the operating wavelength of 1550 nm. Moreover, the influence of the possible variation in the parameters during the fabrication process on the dispersion and birefringence properties is studied. The proposed PCF would have important applications in polarization maintaining transmission systems, residual dispersion compensation, supercontinuum generation, and the design of widely tunable wavelength converters based on four-wave mixing.

42 citations

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TL;DR: A compact wavelength-tunable sub-30-fs amplifier with 11.4 W average power with 20.7% pump-to-signal conversion efficiency is demonstrated and a novel high-power Yb:YAG amplifiers with kW-level output powers are demonstrated.
Abstract: Optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers with high average power are possible with novel high-power Yb:YAG amplifiers with kW-level output powers. We demonstrate a compact wavelength-tunable sub-30-fs amplifier with 11.4 W average power with 20.7% pump-to-signal conversion efficiency. For parametric amplification, a beta-barium borate crystal is pumped by a 140 W, 1 ps Yb:YAG InnoSlab amplifier at 3.25 MHz repetition rate. The broadband seed is generated via supercontinuum generation in a YAG crystal.

42 citations

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TL;DR: To confirm the accuracy of dispersion coefficients obtained through numerical computations, a data-fitting procedure based on the Taylor series expansion provides good agreement with the actual group velocity dispersion curve obtained by using a full-vectorial finite-element mode-solver.
Abstract: A promising design of Ge11.5As24Se64.5 nanowires for supercontinuum generation is proposed through numerical simulations. It can be used for generating a supercontinuum with 1300-nm bandwidth. The dispersion parameters upto eighth-order are obtained by calculating the effective mode index with the finite-element method. We have investigated dispersion curves for a number of nanowire geometries. Through dispersion engineering and by varying dimensions of the nanowires we have identified a promising structure that shows possibility of realizing a wideband supercontinuum. We have found significant variations in its bandwidth with the inclusion of higher-order dispersion coefficients and indicated the possibility of obtaining spurious results if the adequate number of dispersion coefficients is not considered. To confirm the accuracy of dispersion coefficients obtained through numerical computations, we have shown that a data-fitting procedure based on the Taylor series expansion provides good agreement with the actual group velocity dispersion curve obtained by using a full-vectorial finite-element mode-solver.

42 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of super-broadened spectrum generation by intense 50-fs pulses propagating in bulk fused silica was investigated and a mechanism of supercontinuum generation was proposed based on good agreement between the experimental results and numerical simulations.
Abstract: We report experimental and theoretical investigations of the evolution of super-broadened spectrum generation by intense 50-fs pulses propagating in bulk fused silica. Based on good agreement between the experimental results and numerical simulations, a mechanism of supercontinuum generation (SCG) is proposed. At first, both self-phase modulation (SPM) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) contribute substantially but slowly to the broadening before filament formation takes place. After filamentation, a plasma grows rapidly and asymmetric spectral broadening results in a blue-shifted spectrum extending to about 400 nm. A time-resolved experiment of the SCG was also performed using a double-pump technique. The temporal behavior suggests that the vibrational mode excited by the stimulated Raman process by the first pulse contributes to the occurrence of self-focusing.

42 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023184
2022440
2021341
2020411
2019528
2018442