title: Experimental Measurement of the Second-Order Coherence of Supercontinuum.
abstract: We measure experimentally the second-order coherence properties of supercontinuum generated in a photonic crystal fiber. Our approach is based on measuring separately the quasicoherent and quasistationary contributions to the cross-spectral density and mutual coherence functions using a combination of interferometric and nonlinear gating techniques. This allows us to introduce two-dimensional coherence spectrograms which provide a direct characterization and convenient visualization of the spectrotemporal coherence properties. The measured second-order coherence functions are in very good agreement with numerical simulations based on the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Our results pave the way towards the full experimental characterization of supercontinuum coherence properties. More generally, they provide a generic approach for the complete experimental measurement of the coherence of broadband sources.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 527, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Närhi
authors.affiliation: Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland.
authors.forename: Jari
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turunen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland.
authors.forename: Ari T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Friberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 527, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Goëry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Genty