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T1 Experimental investigation on the effect of pump incoherence on nonlinear pump spectral broadening and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation
A1 Martín López, Sonia
A1 Carrasco-Sanz, A.
A1 Corredera, Pedro
A1 Abrardi, L.
A1 Hernanz, M.L.
K1 Fiber sensing
K1 Optical fiber metrology
K1 Raman amplification
K1 Electrónica
K1 Electronics
AB The development of high-power cw fiber lasers has triggered a great interest in the phenomena of nonlinear pump spectral broadening and cw supercontinuum generation. These effects have very convenient applications in Raman amplification, optical fiber metrology, and fiber sensing. In particular, it was recently shown that pump incoherence has a strong impact in these processes. We study experimentally the effect of pump incoherence in nonlinear pump spectral broadening and cw supercontinuum generation in optical fibers. We show that under certain experimental conditions an optimum degree of pump incoherence yields the best performance in the broadening process. We qualitatively explain these results, and we point out that these results may have important implications in cw supercontinuum optimization.
PB Optical Society of America
SN 0146-9592
YR 2006
FD 2006-12-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/28618
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/28618
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
DS MINDS@UW
RD 30-abr-2024