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AUTHOR
A. Lemière
Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in a step-index tellurite fiber and towards few-cycle pulse compression at 2 μ m
Abstract We experimentally demonstrate 140-THz bandwidth (at −20 dB) supercontinuum generation in a 10 cm-long all-normal dispersion step-index tellurite fiber pumped by a turn-key femtosecond fiber laser emitting at 2 . 11 μ m at a repetition rate of 19 MHz. The soliton self-frequency shifted thulium-doped fiber mode-locked laser emits initial transform-limited pulses, with 85-fs pulse duration, that are subsequently quasi-linearly chirped (over more than 50 THz) during the above nJ-level nonlinear propagation. Moreover, we numerically demonstrate the possible pulse compression down to 12 fs by means of additional linear propagation in a standard step-index fluoride fiber with anomalous di…
Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation from 2 to 14 μm in various chalcogenide glasses optical fibers
Chalcogenide glasses optical fibers with step index or microstructured profiles are drawn from low toxicity compositions. Supercontinuum generation lead to an infrared spectrum spanning from 2 to 14µm with a 10µm core fiber of 40mm length.