Soft-glass photonic-crystal fibers for frequency shifting and white-light spectral superbroadening of femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser pulses
Journal
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
7
Pages
1471-1477
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Fedotov, A.B.
Sidorov-Biryukov, D.A.
Ivanov, A.A.
Alfimov, M.V.
Beloglazov, V.I.
Skibina, N.B.
Sun, C.-K.
Zheltikov, A.M.
Abstract
Structural dispersion and nonlinearity management of multicomponent-glass photonic-crystal fibers is shown to allow wavelength-tunable frequency shifting and white-light spectral transformation of femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser pulses. Launching 200 fs pulses of 1.25 μm Cr:forsterite laser radiation into such dispersion-managed soft-glass photonic-crystal fibers in the regime of anomalous dispersion, we demonstrate spectrally tailored supercontinuum generation and frequency upshifting, yielding isolated spectral components with central wavelengths ranging from 400 to 900 nm.
Type
journal article