High Power Highly Nonlinear Holey Fiber with Low Confinement Loss for Supercontinuum Light Sources

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2018-01-11
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Thehighpowerholeyfiberisanefficientsupercontinuumlightsourcebyusingpicosecondpulse,whichisalessexpensivelasersourcecomparedwithlowpowerandexpensivefemtosecondlasersources.Inthispaper,ahighpowerhighlynonlinearholeyfiber(HN-HF)withalowconfinementlossisproposedforsupercontinuumlightsources.ThefinitedifferencemethodisusedtocalculatethedifferentpropertiesoftheproposedHN-HF.Highnonlinearcoefficientsareobtainedat1.06μm,1.31μm,and1.55μmwavelengthswithflattenedchromaticdispersionandlowconfinementlossessimultaneously.Moreover,numericalsimulationresultsshowthathighpowerbroadsupercontinuumspectrawithveryshortlengthoftheproposedphotoniccrystalfiberareachieved.