Abstract

The promising advancement of supercontinuum generation in optical fibers has initiated significant interest in recent research studies and several continuing applications. We numerically corroborate the effects of picosecond pulse pumped supercontinuum (SC) by using two weak continuous-wave (CW) triggers with 1% pump intensity. Compared with SC with one CW trigger, adding two CW triggers (1% pump power), both near the modulation instability peaks, can achieve wider spectra for a picosecond pulse pumped SC. Furthermore, good coherence properties may be achieved in the wavelength range from 1300–2000 nm when one CW trigger is near the pump center wavelength and the other CW trigger is distant from the pump. In our simulations, putting two CW triggers on the same side (concerning the pump wavelength) or putting them on different sides have similar effects on SC spectral and temporal coherence properties. Therefore, by engineering the wavelengths of two CW triggers to offer better bandwidth or coherence, we envision that the proposed technique could play a significant role in the generation of SC.

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