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Blue-enhanced Supercontinuum Generation in a Fluorine-doped Graded-index Multimode Fiber

Optics 2018-10-30 v1

Abstract

Blue-enhanced, broadband supercontinuum generation in a 50 um core fluorine-doped graded-index multimode fiber is demonstrated by pumping with a 1064 nm picosecond source. Multi-octave supercontinuum spectrum extending from ~400 nm to 2,400 nm is achieved in a relatively short fiber. The measured spectrum and multimode nonlinear properties are compared to those of a germanium-doped graded-index multimode fiber. It is shown that engineering the glass composition and thus its chromatic dispersion and absorption characteristics, provides a novel and effective approach to further controlling the nonlinear dynamics in highly multimoded parabolic-index fibers.

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@article{arxiv.1810.11559,
  title  = {Blue-enhanced Supercontinuum Generation in a Fluorine-doped Graded-index Multimode Fiber},
  author = {Z. Sanjabieznaveh and M. A. Eftekhar and J. E. Antonio Lopez and H. Lopez Aviles and M. Kolesik and F. W. Wise and D. N. Christodoulides and R. Amezcua Correa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11559},
  year   = {2018}
}