Build-up of supercontinuum in heated and unheated photonic crystal fibers using a chirped femtosecond laser

作者：Lin Ja Hon; Hsu Chih Chang; Hsieh Wen Feng; Lin Kuel Huei^*

来源：Optics Communications, 2006, 265(2): 659-663.

DOI：10.1016/j.optcom.2006.04.005

The build-up of supercontinuum in a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) has been investigated experimentally as a function of pump power using chirped 100-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser. As compared with the PCF at room temperature, a new blue-shifted spectral component is observed in the initial steps of supercontinuum (SC) generation when the central part of PCF is heated to 120 degrees C by a hot plate. In addition, the slope efficiency of SG is slightly improved with the slightly extension of supercontinuum spectrum in blue edge at high pump powers. The change in dispersion property as well as the effective cascading of nonlinear photonic crystal fibers for heated PCF would be the main attributions.

• 出版日期2006-9-15