title: All-fiber, octave-spanning supercontinuum.
abstract: We present an all-fiber supercontinuum source based on a passively mode-locked erbium fiber laser and a small-effective-area, germanium-doped silica fiber. The parallels between this system and the continuum generated in microstructured fibers with 800-nm pulses are discussed, and the role of dispersion is investigated experimentally. We construct a hybrid fiber by fusion splicing lengths of different-dispersion fiber together, generating more than an octave of bandwidth.
authors.affiliation: OFS Labs, 600-700 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA. jwn@ofsoptics.com
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Nicholson
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wisk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: DiMarcello
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Monberg
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yablon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jørgensen
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authors.lastname: Veng