Supercontinuum generation (SCG) was investigated in tapered tellurite microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) for various taper profiles. We emphasize on the procedure for finding the dispersion profile that achieve the best width of the SC spectra. An enhancement of the SCG is achieved by varying the taper waist diameter along its length in a carefully designed, and an optimal degree of tapering is found to exist for tapers with an axially uniform waist. We also show the XFROG spectrograms of the pulses propagating through different tapered fibers, confirming the optimized taper conditions.

Date Published: 21 August 2014
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9233, International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics 2014, 92330V (21 August 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2064929

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9233:
International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics 2014
Zhiping Zhou, Editor(s)