Towards visible CW pumped supercontinua
Optics
2008-10-08 v1
Abstract
We report a 1 um continuous wave pumped supercontinuum which extends short of the pump wavelength to 0.65 um. This is achieved by using a 50 W Yb fibre laser in combination with a photonic crystal fibre with a carefully engineered zero dispersion wavelength. We show that the short wavelength generation is due to a combination of four-wave mixing and dispersive wave trapping by solitons. The evolution and limiting factors of the continuum are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.2622,
title = {Towards visible CW pumped supercontinua},
author = {B. A. Cumberland and J. C. Travers and S. V. Popov and J. R. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2622},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures