Supercontinuum Generation in an Ytterbium-Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber for CARS Spectroscopy

Christophe Louot (1) , Badr Mohamed Ibrahim Shalaby (2, 1) , Erwan Capitaine (1) , Stéphane Hilaire (3) , Philippe Leproux (1) , Dominique Pagnoux (1) , Vincent Couderc (1)

1 XLIM-PHOT - Photonique Fibre et Sources Cohérentes
2 Tanta University
3 LEUKOS

An optimized broadband source emitting from 1064 to 1600 nm was specially designed for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy. This source is based on the use of a ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber with a large core in which a supercontinuum is generated from a signal wave at 1064 nm regenerated by ytterbium ions pumping. A particularly flat spectrum with high spectral power density and perfectly synchronized spectral components is obtained.

Mots clés: coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering; Supercontinuum generation; nonlinear optics; fiber optics amplifiers

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Christophe Louot, Badr Mohamed Ibrahim Shalaby, Erwan Capitaine, Stéphane Hilaire, Philippe Leproux, et al.. Supercontinuum Generation in an Ytterbium-Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber for CARS Spectroscopy. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2016, 28 (19), pp.2011. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2016.2578721⟩. ⟨hal-01376772⟩