Supercontinuum generation in large mode-area microstructured fibers.

Novel Sensor and Telecommunication Applications of Photonic Crystal Fibers

Photonic crystal fibers are novel optical waveguides containing a periodic array of air holes running along the fiber around a solid or hollow core. These fibers have recently attracted great interest in many research areas such as in nonlinear optics and measurement science as their manufacturing process allows for a high flexibility in the fiber design. Index-guiding photonic crystal fibers a...

Recent Advances in Microstructured Fibers for Laser Delivery and Generation

We report recent advances in the development of fibers for the delivery and generation of both single-mode and heavily multimode laser beams as well as recent progress in fibers for supercontinuum generation in spectral regimes spanning the visible to mid-IR.

Supercontinuum generation in microstructured fibers and novel optical measurement techniques

Supercontinuum Generation in Nonlinear Microstructured Fiber and Recent Advances

Supercontinuum (SC) is generated experimentally in nonlinear microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) which are designed and fabricated by stack and draw process. Effects of different drawing parameters on the MOF structures are studied and high air filling fraction is achieved by optimizing the drawing parameters. Different aspects of SC generation process is theoretically modeled and compared wi...

Nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with a structured multi-component glass core for four-wave mixing and supercontinuum generation.

We report about a new type of nonlinear photonic crystal fibers allowing broadband four-wave mixing and supercontinuum generation. The microstructured optical fiber has a structured core consisting of a rod of highly nonlinear glass material inserted in a silica tube. This particular structure enables four wave mixing processes with very large frequency detuning (>135 THz), which permitted the ...