Yu, YiGai, XinWang, TingMa, PanWang, RongpingYang, ZhiyongMadden, SteveLuther-Davies, BarryChoi, Duk-Yong2016-05-292016-05-292159-3930http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101753We 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.Yi Yu acknowledges the financial support from the China Scholarship Council for her PhD Scholarship No. 201206110048. This research was conducted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (project number CE110001018). Dr Zhiyong Yang is supported by ARC DECRA project DE120101036 and Dr Duk-Yong Choi by ARC Future Fellowship FT110100853.12 pages© 2013 Optical Society of AmericaGlass waveguidesNonlinear opticsSupercontinuum generationDevices2013-07-1610.1364/OME.3.001075