Control of supercontinuum generation and soliton self-frequency shift in solid-core photonic bandgap fibers

A. Bétourné (1) , Alexandre Kudlinski (1) , Géraud Bouwmans (1) , Olivier Vanvincq (1) , Arnaud Mussot (1) , Yves Quiquempois (1)

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

We experimentally investigate the nonlinear propagation of subnanosecond pulses in solid-core photonic bandgap fibers. By launching pulses with a few kilowatts peak power, a flat supercontinuum is generated. The long-wavelength edge of the supercontinuum can be controlled thanks to the original linear properties inherent to solid-core photonic bandgap fibers. This allows one to tailor the generated supercontinuum radiation and to keep it over a given spectral range of interest without any significant power loss

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

A. Bétourné, Alexandre Kudlinski, Géraud Bouwmans, Olivier Vanvincq, Arnaud Mussot, et al.. Control of supercontinuum generation and soliton self-frequency shift in solid-core photonic bandgap fibers. Optics Letters, 2009, 34 (20), pp.3083-3085. ⟨10.1364/OL.34.003083⟩. ⟨hal-00903595⟩