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Supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fiber at 1550 nm is discussed. Spectrum generation under both pulsed and continuous-wave conditions is considered. With a few meters of highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fiber and a femtosecond erbium fiber laser, an octave-spanning supercontinuum is demonstrated. Kilometer lengths of nonlinear fiber pumped by a continuous-wave Raman fiber laser are shown to generate a continuum with a bandwidth greater than 247 nm. A nonlinear Schrödinger-equation model is used to investigate the effect of varying the dispersion on the pulsed continuum and noise effects in the continuous-wave continuum.
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Nicholson, J., Abeeluck, A., Headley, C. et al. Pulsed and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fibers. Appl Phys B 77, 211–218 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1201-z
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