White-light cw-pumped supercontinuum generation in highly GeO2 -doped-core photonic crystal fibers

Alexandre Kudlinski (1) , Géraud Bouwmans (1) , Olivier Vanvincq (1) , Yves Quiquempois (1) , Antoine Le Rouge (1) , Laurent Bigot (1) , Gilles Mélin , Arnaud Mussot (1)

1 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523

GeO2 -doped-core photonic crystal fibers show greatly enhanced Kerr and Raman responses with respect to pure silica without any significant modification of the group-velocity dispersion curve. We show that such fibers allow a significant improvement of cw-pumped supercontinuum generation. We report for the first time to our knowledge the generation of a white-light cw-pumped supercontinuum spanning from 470 nm to more than 1750 nm .

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Alexandre Kudlinski, Géraud Bouwmans, Olivier Vanvincq, Yves Quiquempois, Antoine Le Rouge, et al.. White-light cw-pumped supercontinuum generation in highly GeO2 -doped-core photonic crystal fibers. Optics Letters, 2009, 34 (23), pp.3631-3633. ⟨10.1364/OL.34.003631⟩. ⟨hal-00879934⟩