title: Mid-infrared 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinuum generation in suspended-core microstructured sulfide and tellurite optical fibers.
abstract: In this work, we report the experimental observation of supercontinua generation in two kinds of suspended-core microstructured soft-glass optical fibers. Low loss, highly nonlinear, tellurite and As2S3 chalcogenide fibers have been fabricated and pumped close to their zero-dispersion wavelength in the femtosecond regime by means of an optical parametric oscillator pumped by a Ti:Sapphire laser. When coupled into the fibers, the femtosecond pulses result in 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinua reaching the Mid-Infrared region and extending from 750 nm to 2.8 µm in tellurite fibers and 1 µm to 3.2 µm in chalcogenide fibers, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Savelii
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mouawad
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fatome
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kibler
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Désévédavy
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gadret
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Jules
authors.forename: P-Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Bony
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kohoutek
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohishi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Smektala
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D007834:Lasers; D008027:Light; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D055100:Optical Fibers; D013440:Sulfides / Q000737:chemistry*; D013691:Tellurium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D013440:Sulfides; C026660:tellurous acid; D013691:Tellurium