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T1 Temperature effects on supercontinuum generation using a continuous-wave Raman fiber laser
A1 Martín López, Sonia
A1 González Herráez, Miguel
A1 Corredera, Pedro
A1 Hernanz, M.L.
A1 Carrasco Gallardo, Alberto
A1 Méndez, J.A.
K1 Modulational instability
K1 Raman scattering
K1 Supercontinuum
K1 Temperature dependence
K1 Electrónica
K1 Electronics
AB We describe the effect of temperature variations on supercontinuum (SC) generation in optical fibers using a continuous-wave (CW) Raman fiber laser as a pump. We achieve supercontinuum generation by pumping only ∼2 W of power into a 7 km-long nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZDSF) in the region of small anomalous dispersion. In these conditions, the supercontinuum builds up basically on modulational instability and Raman. At room temperature, the supercontinuum covers effectively the S, C and L transmission bands defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Temperature tuning of the fiber environment provides a means of tuning the fiber dispersion, and thus a means of changing the width and shape of the supercontinuum spectrum. We demonstrate a 27% increase in the 10-dB SC width. We believe that the application of this new tuning mechanism to other experimental configurations using pulsed sources might be used to produce extremely broad supercontinuums.
PB Elsevier
SN 0030-4018
YR 2006
FD 2006-11-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/28677
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/28677
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024