Abstract

Holey lightguides based on quartz glass with a solid core 1-5 µm in diameter, surrounded by a hexagonal system of openings with a number of cycles from one to four, have been developed for converting ultrashort laser pulses into a spectral supercontinuum. It has been shown that the wavelength range from 400 to 1300 nm can be overlapped when the radiation of a Ti-sapphire laser is used.

Frequency conversion of subnanojoule femtosecond laser pulses in a microstructure fiber for photochromism initiation

Stas O. Konorov and Aleksei M. Zheltikov
Opt. Express 11(19) 2440-2445 (2003)

Multiplex frequency conversion of unamplified 30-fs Ti: sapphire laser pulses by an array of waveguiding wires in a random-hole microstructure fiber

Minglie Hu, Ching-yue Wang, Yanfeng Li, Zhuan Wang, Lu Chai, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov
Opt. Express 12(25) 6129-6134 (2004)

Tellurite microstructure fibers with small hexagonal core for supercontinuum generation

Meisong Liao, Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Guanshi Qin, Xin Yan, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi
Opt. Express 17(14) 12174-12182 (2009)

A suspended core nanofiber with unprecedented large diameter ratio of holey region to core

Meisong Liao, Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Xin Yan, Guanshi Qin, Chihiro Kito, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi
Opt. Express 18(9) 9088-9097 (2010)

Efficient white light generation in secondary cores of holey fibers

P. Dupriez, F. Poletti, P. Horak, M. N. Petrovich, Y. Jeong, J. Nilsson, D. J. Richardson, and D. N. Payne
Opt. Express 15(7) 3729-3736 (2007)