title: Quasi-super-continuum generation using ultrahigh-speed wavelength-tunable soliton pulses.
abstract: A quasi-super-continuum (quasi-SC) source is demonstrated as a new broadband light source for the first time to our knowledge using electronically controlled ultrahigh-speed wavelength tuning of a femtosecond soliton pulse. The scanning speed is as fast as 1 MHz. The center wavelength, bandwidth, and spectrum shape can be changed arbitrarily. The generated quasi-SC is evaluated by detecting the interference signal in a Michelson interferometer. It was confirmed that the quasi-SC source worked like the conventional SC source for the incoherent interferometer system.
authors.affiliation: Division of Advanced Science and Biotechnology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. sumimura@photonics.mls.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sumimura
authors.forename: Takefumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Norihiko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nishizawa