title: Fabrication and supercontinuum generation in dispersion flattened bismuth microstructured optical fiber.
abstract: We fabricated a microstructured optical fiber with a dispersion profile that, according to calculations, is near-zero and flat, with 3 zero dispersion wavelengths in the mid-IR. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of the fabrication of such a fiber. Simulations of multimode supercontinuum generation were performed using a simplified approach. Strong agreement between experiments and simulations were observed using this approach.
authors: Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. wen.zhang@adelaide.edu.au
authors: Wen Qi
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