<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In this paper, we study a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with circular lattice and engineer linear and nonlinear parameters by varying the diameter of air-holes. It helps us obtain low and high zero dispersion wavelengths in the visible and nearinfrared regions. We numerically demonstrate that by launching 100 fs input pulses of 1, 2, and 5 kW peak powers with center wavelength of 532 nm from an unamplified Ti:sapphire laser into a 100 mm length of the engineered PCF, supercontinua as wide as 290, 440 and 830 nm can be obtained, respectively. The spectral broadening is due to the combined action of self-phase modulation, stimulated Raman scattering and parametric four-wave-mixing generation of the pump pulses. The third and the widest spectrum covers the entire visible range and a part of near infrared region making it a suitable source for both white light applications and optical coherence tomography to measure retinal oxygen metabolic response to systemic oxygenation.</p></abstract>

In this paper, we study a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with circular lattice and engineer linear and nonlinear parameters by varying the diameter of air-holes. It helps us obtain low and high zero dispersion wavelengths in the visible and nearinfrared regions. We numerically demonstrate that by launching 100 fs input pulses of 1, 2, and 5 kW peak powers with center wavelength of 532 nm from an unamplified Ti:sapphire laser into a 100 mm length of the engineered PCF, supercontinua as wide as 290, 440 and 830 nm can be obtained, respectively. The spectral broadening is due to the combined action of self-phase modulation, stimulated Raman scattering and parametric four-wave-mixing generation of the pump pulses. The third and the widest spectrum covers the entire visible range and a part of near infrared region making it a suitable source for both white light applications and optical coherence tomography to measure retinal oxygen metabolic response to systemic oxygenation.

White light generation using photonic crystal fiber with sub-micron circular lattice

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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In this paper, we study a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with circular lattice and engineer linear and nonlinear parameters by varying the diameter of air-holes....

White light generation using photonic crystal fiber with sub-micron circular lattice

Published Online: Sep 13, 2017

Page range: 282 - 289

Received: Oct 06, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jee-2017-0040

Keywords
photonic crystal fiber (PCF), white light, supercontinuum generation (SCG), dispersion engineering

© Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

White light generation using photonic crystal fiber with sub-micron circular lattice

Published Online: Sep 13, 2017

Page range: 282 - 289

Received: Oct 06, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jee-2017-0040

Keywordsphotonic crystal fiber (PCF), white light, supercontinuum generation (SCG), dispersion engineering

© Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
photonic crystal fiber (PCF), white light, supercontinuum generation (SCG), dispersion engineering