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Highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber for smooth supercontinuum generation at 1.5 µm

Juliet T. Gopinath, Hanfei M. Shen, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Erich P. Ippen, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Tatsuo Nagashima, and Naoki Sugimoto

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Abstract

Short lengths of highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber are used to generate smooth supercontinuum spanning from 1200 nm to 1800 nm, with sub-0.5 nJ pulse energies. The spectral broadening in a 2-cm length of this fiber was used to compress 150-fs pulses to 25 fs.

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Figures (4)
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Spectra from a 2-cm piece of fiber generated by 1540-nm excitation at average powers exiting the fiber of: a) 32 mW b) 21.4 mW c) 14 mW d) 7 mW. The interference at the center of the spectra is due to insufficient attenuation of cladding modes.

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Fig. 2. Spectra from a 2-cm length of fiber of input wavelengths of: a) 1540 nm b) 1500 nm c) 1450 nm. The spectra were taken up to 1700 nm with an optical spectrum analyzer, and the measurement from 1700–1900 nm was taken with a spectrometer. The spectra were all taken for comparable powers and are vertically offset for ease of viewing.

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Fig. 3. Fringe resolved autocorrelation of 25-fs pulses generated from 2 cm of fiber with 150-fs input pulses at 1540 nm. The pulse is fitted with the Picaso phase retrieval algorithm.

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Fig. 4. Supercontinuum spectra from 1 m of highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber generated by 1540-nm excitation at average powers exiting the fiber of: a) 34 mW b) 20 mW c) 10 mW.

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