Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in chalcogenides

Yi Yu*, Xin Gai, Ting Wang, Pan Ma, Rongping Wang, Zhiyong Yang, Duk-Yong Choi, Steve Madden, Barry Luther-Davies

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Abstract

We review experiments on mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC) generation including our own work on chalcogenide waveguides. Simulations are used to define the conditions in which a chalcogenide waveguide would produce SC from ≈2.5 μm to beyond 10 μm in a single waveguide device. The simulations suggested that broadband SC could be generated by pumping a bulk chalcogenide with fs pulses in the anomalous dispersion regime and this was demonstrated experimentally by producing a flat SC from 2.5 μm to beyond 7.5 μm.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1075-1086
JournalOptical Materials Express
Volume3
Issue number8
Online published16 Jul 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2013
Externally publishedYes

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