High average power, strictly all-fiber supercontinuum source with good beam quality
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In-situ Tapering of Chalcogenide Fiber for Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation
Published on: May 27, 2013
Xiaohong Hu1, Wei Zhang, Zhi Yang
1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China.
Abstract:
A 1.05 μm picosecond pulsed fiber master oscillator power amplifier system delivering an average power of over 100 W was used to pump a 5 m long commercially available photonic crystal fiber and a 49.8 W supercontinuum spanning from around 500 nm to above 1700 nm was generated. Strictly single mode operation of the all-fiber supercontinuum source across the whole spectral range was verified through the quantitative measurement of the beam quality.
