Dispersion controlled tellurite microstructured fibers for supercontiuum generations pumped by picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers

Meisong Liao; Xin Yan; Guanshi Qin; Chitrarekha Chaudhari; Takenobu Suzuki; Yasutake Ohishi

doi:10.1117/12.873689

23 February 2011 Dispersion controlled tellurite microstructured fibers for supercontiuum generations pumped by picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers

Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Guanshi Qin, Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

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Proceedings Volume 7934, Optical Components and Materials VIII; 793414 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873689
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Supercontinuum (SC) generation has the important applications such as broadband light source, optical coherence tomography, ultra-short pulse compression, and optical frequency metrology, etc. Tellurite glass is transparent in the mid-infrared range, and has a higher n₂ than silica glass by at least one order of magnitude. We have fabricated the hexagonally shaped tellurite air-clad fiber with a core diameter of around 1 μm through controlling the temperature field exactly in the process of fiber-drawing. Since the SC generation strongly depends on the chromatic dispersion, which is determined by the microstructure of fiber, it is interesting to investigate and demonstrate such dependence for such a small core fiber in detail. In this work by pumping a positive pressure of nitrogen gas into the holes of preform, we obtained 1 μm core fibers with diameter ratio of holey region to core (DRHC) varied from 3.5 to 20. The dispersion was tailored effectively by the variation of DRHC. Dependences of SC on the microstructure and dispersion were demonstrated. The pump lasers were picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers. One octave flattened SC generation was obtained for the fibers pumped by 1064 nm picosecond fiber laser with the pulse energy of several hundred pJ. Intense second and third harmonic generations were obtained under the pump of a 1557 nm femtosecond fiber laser. The correlation of dispersion and SC spectra was analyzed. Such tellurite microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) with high nonlinearity and controlled dispersion are significant in nonlinear applications.

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Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Guanshi Qin, Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi "Dispersion controlled tellurite microstructured fibers for supercontiuum generations pumped by picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers", Proc. SPIE 7934, Optical Components and Materials VIII, 793414 (23 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873689

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