High power supercontinuum generation in a nonlinear ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier

Song, Rui; Hou, Jing; Chen, Shengping; Yang, Weiping; Lu, Qin

doi:10.1364/ol.37.001529

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“…The data of the final output spectrums are averaged every 10 points in order to show the spectrums more clearly. The change of the width and the shape of the output spectrums with the increase of the small signal gain are in good agreement with the experiments in [9]- [10]. The results confirmed that for one thing, the Ginzburg-Landau equation and the noise model as well as the Raman response model used in this paper can accurately simulate near-infrared SC generation from a nonlinear fiber amplifier.…”

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“…High power near-infrared SC has a wide variety of applications, such as remote chemical sensing [6], real time optical metrology [7], spectroscopy [8] to name a few. We have achieved 70W and 177.6W high power near-infrared SC in succession from a nonlinear fiber amplifier, which proved the advantages of nonlinear fiber amplifier in high power near-infrared SC generation [9]- [10].…”

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“…Dispersion parameters are very important in the simulation of near-infrared SC generation. A system based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and SC white light are used for ultra-broadband and high precision dispersion measurement of the ytterbium-doped fiber [15], and the measured dispersion parameters of the 30/250μm double clad ytterbium-doped fiber used in the experiments in [9]- [10] are 2 β =1.5043e-26s 2 /m, 3 β =3.5969e-41s 3 /m, 4 β =3.0886e-56s 4 /m, 5 β =6.0954e-70 s 5 /m, 6 β =-1.3395e-84s 6 /m.The 3ns pump pulse used in [9]- [10] is replaced by a 50ps hyperbolic secant pulse with no initial chirp and 10kW peak power in the simulation in order to save calculation time. The shape of the gain spectrum is Lorentz with central wavelength at 1060nm and 40nm bandwidth.…”

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Numerical simulations of high power near-infrared supercontinuum generation from a nonlinear fiber amplifier

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Photonic crystal fiber has been widely used in visible and near-infrared supercontinuum generation due to its flexible dispersion control and high nonlinearity. However, the maximum average output power of supercontinuum from a photonic crystal fiber has not exceed one hundred watt owing to the small core diameter of the photonic crystal fiber and the low coupling efficiency between the pump and the photonic crystal fiber. Recently, supercontinuum generation directly from a nonlinear fiber amplifier attracts lots of attention as a result of its simple structure and low splicing loss and many excellent results have been achieved either in low and high average power, which is proved to be a promising method to realize kilowatt level high power near-infrared supercontinuum. However, the numerical study on high power near-infrared supercontinuum generation from a nonlinear fiber amplifier has been rarely reported, so there is great necessity to carry out some theoretical study on it. In this paper the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is used to describe the formation and propagation of high power near-infrared supercontinuum generation in a nonlinear fiber amplifier. The chromatic dispersion of the ytterbium-doped fiber is measured by a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The roles of the small signal gain, input pulse width and initial chirp of the input pulse played on the continuum formation are analyzed in detail. The results are in good agreement with the experiments which can provide some theoretical guidance on future optimization of the flatness and width of the supercontinuum generation from a nonlinear fiber amplifier.

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“…However, the obtained spectra did not meet the desired characteristics for CARS spectroscopy: in [10], the spectrum covered the visible region from 500 nm to 900 nm, i. e. out of the range of interest for the targeted application, and the spectrum reported in [11] suffered from deep undesirable modulations below the 1300 nm zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW), due to stimulated Raman scattering in normal dispersion regime. In 2012, Song et al reported the generation of a SC with a very high spectral power density (70mW/nm) over the range 1064-1700 nm [12]. This result was obtained at the expense of a very complicated setup involving multi-stage amplification, with both double clad and core-pumped Yb-doped PCFs.…”

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

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International audienceAn 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

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“…Otherwise, low repetition Q-switched or mode lock laser seed with high peak power is required [15], [16]. For the SC source with high average output power generated in fiber amplifier, the threshold pump power is very high reaching hundreds of Watts [17], [18].…”

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Broadband Supercontinuum Generation Based on Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Seeded by Self-Pulsed Amplified Spontaneous Emission Source

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Hou

Chen

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J. Lightwave Technol.

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We report a novel method to obtain high-power nearinfrared broadband supercontinuum based on amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source. Firstly two kinds of ASE seed sources, without and with parasitic laser, are amplified to be 19.1 and 19.9 W, respectively, using a fiber amplifier. Then, comparative experiments are performed by using these two sources to pump different fibers. When using the ASE source without parasitic laser to pump a piece of 1000-m single-mode fiber, six orders Stokes waves are generated to extend the spectrum to beyond 1500 nm. But the spectrum is not flat with clear discrete Stokes peaks. When a section of 150-m double-clad passive fiber is pumped by the ASE source with parasitic laser, 18.3 W supercontinuum with 20 dB spectral range covering from 1030 to 1650 nm is generated. And the continuous ASE source becomes a stochastic pulsed light owing to parasitic lasing and self-pulse effect without any artificial modulation. This method combines the merits of ASE source and pulsed light, which are simplicity and low cost of the former and high peak power of the latter.Index Terms-Supercontinuum source, amplified spontaneous emission, fiber amplifier, parasitic laser, self-pulse effect.

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High power supercontinuum generation in a nonlinear ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier

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