Mid-infrared flattened supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion tellurium chalcogenide fiber

We have prepared a well-structured tellurium chalcogenide (ChG) fiber with a specialized double cladding structure by an improved extrusion method, and experimentally demonstrated an ultra-flat mid-infrared (MIR) supercontinuum (SC) generation in such a fiber. The step-index fiber had an optical loss of <1 dB/m in a range from 7.4 to 9.7 μm with a minimum loss of 0.69 dB/m at 7.87 μm. Simulation showed that an all-normal dispersion profile can be realized in this double cladding tellurium fiber. An ultra-flat MIR SC spectrum (~3.2-12.1μm at -10 dB, ~2-14 μm at -30 dB) was generated from a 22-cm long fiber pumped with a femtosecond laser at 5 μm (~150 fs, 1 kHz). Then the degree of coherence was calculated out based on a simulation, showing that a high coherent MIR SC (from 2.9 to 13.1 μm) can be generated in this double-cladding tellurium fiber.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

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Optics express - 27(2019), 3 vom: 04. Feb., Seite 2036-2043

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jiao, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Jinmei [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Zheming [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiange [VerfasserIn]
Si, Nian [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xunsi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Zugang [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Youmei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Peiqing [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Shixun [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Qiuhua [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Rongping [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 11.02.2019

Date Revised 15.02.2019

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1364/OE.27.002036

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NLM29358267X