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Octave-spanning ultraflat supercontinuum with soft-glass photonic crystal fibers
Juan Jose MiretPedro AndrésEnrique Silvestresubject
Materials scienceNonlinear opticsPhysics::OpticsOctave (electronics)Sensitivity and SpecificityPulse propagation and temporal solitonsOpticsDispersion (optics)Computer SimulationSelf-phase modulationOptical FibersPhotonic crystalÓpticaPhotonsbusiness.industryFemtosecond phenomenaReproducibility of ResultsNonlinear opticsEquipment DesignModels TheoreticalAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsSupercontinuumEquipment Failure AnalysisFibersFemtosecondComputer-Aided DesignOptoelectronicsGlassCrystallizationbusinessPhotonic-crystal fiberdescription
We theoretically identify some photonic-crystal-fiber structures, made up of soft glass, that generate ultrawide (over an octave) and very smooth supercontinuum spectra when illuminated with femtosecond pulsed light. The design of the fiber geometry in order to reach a nearly ultraflattened normal dispersion behavior is crucial to accomplish the above goal. Our numerical simulations reveal that these supercontinuum sources show high stability and no significant changes are detected even for fairly large variations of the incident pulse. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (TEC2008-05490) and Generalitat Valenciana (GV/2007/043).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-02-18 |