Control of soliton collision-induced enhancement of supercontinuum bandwidth in photonic crystal fiber fiber by variation of pump pulse duration

Marco Andreana (1) , Alexis Labruyère (1) , Alessandro Tonello (1) , Stefan Wabnitz (2) , Philippe Leproux (1) , Vincent Couderc (1) , Charles Duterte , Andras Cserteg , Bertrand Anthony , Yves Hernandez , Domenico Giannone , Stéphane Hilaire (3, 4) , Guillaume Huss

1 PHOTONIQUE
2 univesité de brescia
3 LEUKOS
4 DAM/DIF - DAM Île-de-France

We investigate experimentally and theoretically the impact of input pulse width varying from 500 fs to 10 ps on supercontinuum generation. We show that the spectral broadening is dramatically extended for the longer input pulses.

Marco Andreana, Alexis Labruyère, Alessandro Tonello, Stefan Wabnitz, Philippe Leproux, et al.. Control of soliton collision-induced enhancement of supercontinuum bandwidth in photonic crystal fiber fiber by variation of pump pulse duration. Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications (NLO), Jul 2011, Kauai, Hawaii, United States. paper: NTuC4. ⟨hal-00644116⟩