Enhanced bandwidth of supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers.

Effect of cross-phase modulation on supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers with sub-30 fs pulses.

We investigate the effects of cross-phase modulation between the solitons and dispersive waves present in a supercontinuum generated in microstructured fibers by sub-30 fs pulses. Cross-phase modulation is shown to have a crucial importance as it extends the supercontinuum towards shorter wavelengths. The experimental observations are confirmed through numerical simulations.

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...

Supercontinuum generation in large mode-area microstructured fibers.

Supercontinuum generation in large mode-area microstructured fibers is demonstrated by launching into the fiber ns pulses from a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The special properties of these fibers open the way to compact, single-mode, high-power supercontinuum sources with a low divergence of the output beam. The nonlinear phenomena leading to the formation of the broad spectrum are also ...

Supercontinuum generation in a highly birefringent microstructured fiber

We present experimental results on supercontinuum generation in a highly birefringent microstructured fiber. We show that such a fiber offers clear advantages for continuum generation over weakly birefringent fibers. In particular, the polarization is preserved along the fiber for all the spectral components. Furthermore, the two eigenpolarizations exhibit different dispersion characteristics, ...

Supercontinuum generation in microstructured fibers and novel optical measurement techniques