Supercontinuum generation by cascaded intermodal Raman and FWM processes in step-index few-mode fibers

Solveig Perret (1) , Gil Fanjoux (1) , Lionel Bigot (2) , Julien Fatome (3) , Guy Millot (3) , John Michaël Dudley (1) , Thibaut Sylvestre (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
2 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523
3 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

This work shows that step-index few-mode fibers can be combined with a simple microchip picosecond laser to give a multi-octave spanning supercontinuum output by cascaded Raman scattering and intermodal FWM.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Solveig Perret, Gil Fanjoux, Lionel Bigot, Julien Fatome, Guy Millot, et al.. Supercontinuum generation by cascaded intermodal Raman and FWM processes in step-index few-mode fibers. Latin America Optics and Photonics, Nov 2018, Lima, Peru. ⟨hal-02300641⟩