title: Broadband supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion chalcogenide microwires.
abstract: We report the first chalcogenide microwire designed with all-normal dispersion to generate supercontinuum by optical wave breaking, a low-noise nonlinear process. The chalcogenide (As2S3) microwire is coated with PMMA and tapered to a diameter of 0.58 μm to achieve the all-normal dispersion regime. The generated supercontinuum spectrum spans over an octave from 960 to >2500  nm using a microwire length of only 3 mm and a low pulse energy of 150 pJ.
authors.forename: Alaa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Kadry
authors.forename: Lizhu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El Amraoui
authors.forename: Thibault
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: North
authors.forename: Younès
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Messaddeq
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rochette