%0 Journal Article 
%A Martín López, Sonia
%A Corredera, Pedro
%A Abrardi, L.
%A Carrasco-Sanz, A.
%A Rodríguez Barrios, Félix
%A Hernanz, M.L.
%A González Herráez, Miguel
%T All Fibre Continuous Wave Supercontinuum Sources for fibre sensing purposes
%D 2008
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27777
%X A supercontinuum light source is a wideband source
obtained as the result of the broadening of a spectrally narrow
pump source in a nonlinear medium. The high spectral
brightness, large spectral width, tailored wavelength band of
emission, and coherence make supercontinuun sources (SC)
very attractive for photonics applications. The SCs generated
with continuous wave (CW) pumps have the additional property
that they present much higher spectral power density than the
ones generated with pulsed pumps. We present three different
supercontinuun sources tailored with conventional
telecommunications fibers in order to obtain high power
emission in the 1300 and 1550 nm spectral regions. We show
that the spectral width, spectral shape and brightness of the
supercontinua can be designed by a precise selection of the
dispersion proprieties of the fibers used. This properties convert
this type of sources in a very interesting candidate to be used in
fiber sensing and photonic applications, for instance to avoid the
need of amplification in the interrogation of remote Bragg
gratings or to improve the resolution and dynamic range of
optical coherence tomography setups.
%K Supercontinuum
%K Broadband sources
%K Optical coherence tomography
%K Electrónica
%K Electronics
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala