Watt-level Flat Supercontinuum Source Pumped by Noise-like Pulse from an All-fiber Oscillator

He Chen, Shengping Chen, Zongfu Jiang, Jing Hou

2016

Abstract

We demonstrate Watt-level flat visible supercontinuum (SC) generation in photonic crystal fibers, which is directly pumped by broadband noise-like pulses from an Yb-doped all-fiber oscillator. The novel SC generator is featured with elegant all-fiber-integrated architecture, high spectral flatness and high efficiency. Wide optical spectrum spanning from 500 nm to 2300 nm with 1.02 W optical power is obtained under the pump power of 1.40 W. The flatness of the spectrum in the range of 700 nm~1600 nm is less than 5 dB (including the pump residue). The exceptional simplicity, economical efficiency and the comparable performances make the noise-like pulse oscillator a competitive candidate to the widely used cascade amplified coherent pulse as the pump source of broadband SC. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of SC generation which is directly pumped by an all-fiber noise-like pulse oscillator.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chen H., Chen S., Jiang Z. and Hou J. (2016). Watt-level Flat Supercontinuum Source Pumped by Noise-like Pulse from an All-fiber Oscillator.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS, ISBN 978-989-758-174-8, pages 311-316. DOI: 10.5220/0005794303110316

in Bibtex Style

@conference{photoptics16,
author={He Chen and Shengping Chen and Zongfu Jiang and Jing Hou},
title={Watt-level Flat Supercontinuum Source Pumped by Noise-like Pulse from an All-fiber Oscillator},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS,},
year={2016},
pages={311-316},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005794303110316},
isbn={978-989-758-174-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS,
TI - Watt-level Flat Supercontinuum Source Pumped by Noise-like Pulse from an All-fiber Oscillator
SN - 978-989-758-174-8
AU - Chen H.
AU - Chen S.
AU - Jiang Z.
AU - Hou J.
PY - 2016
SP - 311
EP - 316
DO - 10.5220/0005794303110316