Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in chalcogenides
Date
2013-07-16
Authors
Yu, Yi
Gai, Xin
Wang, Ting
Ma, Pan
Wang, Rongping
Yang, Zhiyong
Madden, Steve
Luther-Davies, Barry
Choi, Duk-Yong
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Optical Society of America
Abstract
We review experiments on mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC)
generation including our own work on chalcogenide waveguides.
Simulations are used to define the conditions in which a chalcogenide
waveguide would produce SC from ≈2.5 µm to beyond 10 µm in a single
waveguide device. The simulations suggested that broadband SC could be
generated by pumping a bulk chalcogenide with fs pulses in the anomalous
dispersion regime and this was demonstrated experimentally by producing a
flat SC from 2.5 µm to beyond 7.5 µm.
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Glass waveguides, Nonlinear optics, Supercontinuum generation, Devices
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Optical Materials Express
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Open Access