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Five-order SRSs and supercontinuum generation from a tapered tellurite microstructured fiber with longitudinally varying dispersion

Authors :
Xin Yan
Takenobu Suzuki
Meisong Liao
Weiqing Gao
Guanshi Qin
Zhongchao Duan
Yasutake Ohishi
Source :
Optics express. 19(16)
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

We try to obtain stable supercontinuum (SC) generation with broad bandwidth under relative simple pump conditions. We use a 1.3-m-long highly nonlinear tellurite microstructured fiber and pump it by a 15 ps 1064 nm fiber laser. One segment of the fiber is tapered from a core diameter of 3.4 μm to 1.3 μm. For the first time five-order stimulated Raman scatterings (SRSs) are observed for soft glass fibers. SC covering 730-1700 nm is demonstrated with the pump-pulse-energy of several nJ. The mechanisms of SC broadening are mainly SRS, self-phase modulation (SPM) and cross phase modulation (XPM). The tapered segment has two advantages. Firstly it increases the nonlinearity of fiber by several times. Secondly, it acts as a compensation for the dispersion of the untapered segment, and mitigates the walk-off between pump pulse and SRS peaks.

Details

ISSN :
10944087
Volume :
19
Issue :
16
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Optics express
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ce17211159a59cdea3e690b876acd08a