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Spectral broadening of 40-fs Ti:sapphire laser pulses in photonic-molecule modes of a cobweb-microstructure fiber

  • A. B. Fedotov
  • , P. Zhou
  • , A. N. Naumov
  • , V. V. Temnov
  • , V. I. Beloglazov
  • , N. B. Skibina
  • , L. A. Mel'nikov
  • , A. V. Shcherbakov
  • , A. P. Tarasevitch
  • , D. Von Der Linde
  • , A. M. Zheltikov
  • Moscow State University
  • University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Inst. Glass Struct. Technol. Equip.

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Abstract

Photonic-molecule modes of a cobweb-microstructure fiber allow efficient nonlinear optical spectral broadening of nanojoule femtosecond light pulses. Spectral widths of approximately 200 nm are achieved at the output of a 6-cm sample of such a fiber for 40-fs Ti:sapphire laser pulses with an energy of a few nanojoules coupled into photonic-molecule modes. Higher values of the group index and a lower group-velocity dispersion, attainable with higher-order photonic-molecule modes, allow the efficiency of spectral broadening of femtosecond laser pulses to be increased relative to the efficiency of spectral broadening in the fundamental photonic-molecule mode.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)621-627
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
Volume75
Issue number6-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2002
Externally publishedYes

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