Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion

Chunlei Huang; Meisong Liao; Wanjun Bi; Xia Li; Lili Hu; Long Zhang; Longfei Wang; Guanshi Qin; Tianfeng Xue; Danping Chen; Weiqing Gao

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000601

Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (6): 06000601, Published Online: Jul. 2, 2018

Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion Download： 696次

Chunlei Huang ^1,2Meisong Liao ^1,*Wanjun Bi ^1,2Xia Li ¹Lili Hu ¹Long Zhang ¹Longfei Wang ¹Guanshi Qin ³Tianfeng Xue ^1,2Danping Chen ¹Weiqing Gao ⁴

Author Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³ State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

⁴ School of Electronic Science & Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

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Chunlei Huang, Meisong Liao, Wanjun Bi, Xia Li, Lili Hu, Long Zhang, Longfei Wang, Guanshi Qin, Tianfeng Xue, Danping Chen, Weiqing Gao. Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(6): 06000601.

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