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Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a four-hole As2S5 chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber

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We demonstrate the supercontinuum (SC) generation in a four-hole As2S5 chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber (MOF) experimentally. The As2S5 glass has better property of transmission than As2S3 glass in the visible range. The four-hole As2S5 MOF is fabricated by a rod-in-tube method. The SCs generated by different pump wavelengths at 2,000, 2,300 and 2,500 nm in the MOF whose length is from 2.3 to 20 cm are demonstrated. Those pump wavelengths correspond to the chromatic dispersion wavelength in the normal chromatic dispersion region, the anomalous chromatic dispersion region close to zero-dispersion wavelength (ZDW) and the anomalous chromatic dispersion region far from ZDW, respectively. Wider SCs can be obtained when pumped at a wavelength in the anomalous dispersion region close to ZDW. The widest SC range of 4,280 nm (from 1,370 to 5,650 nm) covering two octaves was obtained in a 4.8-cm-long fiber pumped at 2,300 nm.

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This work was supported by MEXT, Support Program for Forming Strategic Research Infrastructure (2011–2015) and Daiko foundation. Weiqing Gao thanks the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants 61307056 and 11374084).

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  1. Research Center for Advanced Photon Technology, Toyota Technological Institute, 2-12-1 Hisakata, Tempaku, Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan

    Weiqing Gao, Zhongchao Duan, Koji Asano, Tonglei Cheng, Dinghuan Deng, Takenobu Suzuki & Yasutake Ohishi

  2. Furukawa Denshi Co., Ltd., 2-3-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 100-8370, Japan

    Morio Matsumoto & Takashi Misumi

  3. School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Tunxi Road 193, Hefei, 230009, China

    Weiqing Gao

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Gao, W., Duan, Z., Asano, K. et al. Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a four-hole As2S5 chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber. Appl. Phys. B 116, 847–853 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5771-8

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