Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers

Shenping Li; A. Boh Ruffin; Dmitri V. Kuksenkov; Ming-Jun Li; Daniel A. Nolan

doi:10.1117/12.742119

21 November 2007 Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers

Shenping Li, A. Boh Ruffin, Dmitri V. Kuksenkov, Ming-Jun Li, Daniel A. Nolan

Proceedings Volume 6781, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices IV; 678105 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.742119
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

In this paper, we studied SC generation in fiber lasers and in optical fibers pumped by different light sources which include fs and ps pulse sources, and continuous-wave (CW) amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light sources. First, we demonstrated SC generation with a 10dB spectral bandwidth of 430nm in a fiber ring laser with conventional nonlinear fiber. Second, we proposed and demonstrated a new and efficient approach to generation of a CW SC in optical fibers pumped by a CW ASE light. A bandwidth of 268nm (at -15dB level) with an average spectral density of 2.7mW/nm was demonstrated. Various approaches to flattening the spectrum and increasing the spectral width were also studied. The application of this SC source in WDM passive optical access networks (WDM-PONs) was investigated. Third, the approach of SC generation in a fiber combination of standard SMF and nonlinear DSF pumped by an all-fiber fs pulse Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) system was developed. A spectral bandwidth of over 1000nm was demonstrated. Finally, the generation of broad comb-like-spectral light based on the pulse compression of 40GHz optical pulses in a new nonlinear dispersion-decreasing fiber with high SBS threshold was studied. A continuum light source with over 125 channels and a channel spacing of 40 GHz was achieved. The use of this continuum light source as WDM source in WDM-PONs was investigated.

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Shenping Li, A. Boh Ruffin, Dmitri V. Kuksenkov, Ming-Jun Li, and Daniel A. Nolan "Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers", Proc. SPIE 6781, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices IV, 678105 (21 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.742119

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