Fabrication of a 145-m long microstructured optical fiber taper and its supercontinuum generation

Peiguang Yan; Shuangchen Ruan; Junqing Zhao; Jian Zhao; Jie Shu; Huifeng Wei; Jie Luo

doi:10.1117/1.3631836

1 October 2011 Fabrication of a 145-m long microstructured optical fiber taper and its supercontinuum generation

Peiguang Yan, Shuangchen Ruan, Junqing Zhao, Jian Zhao, Jie Shu, Huifeng Wei, Jie Luo

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 50, Issue 10, 105003 (October 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3631836

Abstract

A 145-m long microstructured optical fiber taper was fabricated on the industry drawing tower. The fiber taper had good uniformity of structure as the outer diameter decreased from 110 to 80 μm. Its optical attenuation was measured 52 dB/km at 1060 nm, and the zero dispersion wavelengths along the slow axis were calculated decreasing from 1000 to 915 nm. Watt-level supercontinuum spanning from 430 to 2050 nm was obtained as the fiber taper pumped by a 1064 nm picosecond laser source. The nonlinear mechanism of spectral broadening is carefully investigated with the support of numerical simulations.

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Peiguang Yan, Shuangchen Ruan, Junqing Zhao, Jian Zhao, Jie Shu, Huifeng Wei, and Jie Luo "Fabrication of a 145-m long microstructured optical fiber taper and its supercontinuum generation," Optical Engineering 50(10), 105003 (1 October 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3631836

Published: 1 October 2011

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