A new design of the As2Se3 microfiber has been presented. With the optimized geometric parameters: pitch Λ= 0.8 μm and five different air filling ratios varying from 0.4 to 0.95, the structure exhibits an all normal dispersion with a flat top equal to -2.3 [ps/(nm.km)], a confinement loss less than 10^-2 dB/km, and a large nonlinear coefficient equal to 7250 (w. km)^-1. Using the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we generate a very broadband supercontinuum (SC) in the mid-infrared region. By pumping the fiber at λp=5.24 μm with a femtosecond laser having 50 fs as a width with a relatively low energy of E=80 pJ, we generate a large spectrum extending from 2 μm to 10 μm in only 2 mm fiber length. The generated SC demonstrates perfect coherence property over the entire bandwidth. SC generation extended into the mid-infrared (IR) spectral region have potential usefulness in a variety of applications requiring a broad mid-IR spectrum such as fiber sensing, IR spectroscopy, fiber laser, optical tomography coherence.

Date Published: 5 September 2014
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9200, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications VIII, 92000S (5 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2061848

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9200:
Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications VIII
Shizhuo Yin; Ruyan Guo, Editor(s)