Trapped Supercontinuum and Multi-Color Gap Solitons

Abstract

The generation of supercontinuum radiation is a fascinating example of extreme nonlinear processes where many colors of light are created from a narrow-band source. Supercontinuum radiation differs significantly from the light emitted by incoherent light sources, combining high spatial coherence and spectral brightness; it has found various applications in diverse fields of physics, including optical frequency metrology, spectroscopy, tomography, etc. Efficient approaches have been developed for the manipulation of temporal and spectral characteristics of supercontinuum generated in photonic crystal fibers (PCFs). PCFs allow for engineering of the spectral dispersion and confinement of light through the underlying periodicity of their structure. Show more