Supercontinuum generation in highly birefringent fiber infiltrated with carbon disulfide
Authors: Lanh Chu Van, Bao Tran Le Tran, Trong Dang Van, Ngoc Vo Thi Minh, Thuy Nguyen Thi, Hong Phuong Nguyen Thi, Minh Hang Trang Nguyen, Van Thuy Hoang
Optical Fiber Technology
: 75 : 103151
Publishing year: 12/2023
Supercontinuum generation in highly birefringent fiber infiltrated with carbon disulfide is numerically studied
with a linearly polarized femtosecond laser (1560 nm wavelength, 90 fs pulse duration) as a pump source. The
fiber has two polarized modes (x- and y-polarized LP01) with different dispersion characteristics, meaning allnormal
dispersion for the y-polarized mode and anomalous dispersion for the x-polarized mode. We build a
numerical modeling for nonlinear propagation including Kerr effects and Raman effects with positive and
negative nonlinear refractive. Our results point out that spectral bandwidth, flatness, and coherence of supercontinuum
generation depend on the input polarized angle (an angle with respect to the x-axis) of the laser
pulses. In particular, the input pulses polarized near slow-axis (x-axis) provide 1.5 octave-spanning solitoninduced
SC generation with bandwidth from 1000 nm to 3300 nm via 10 kW input peak power, while input
pulses polarized near the fast-axis (y-axis) create octave-spanning all-normal dispersion supercontinuum generation
(from 1200 nm to 2500 nm). Modification of the input angle enables controlling spectro-temporal
properties of supercontinuum generation, such as polarization state, coherence, spectral bandwidth, and flatness.
In addition, the use of highly birefringent fiber also enables suppression of polarization modulation
instability; therefore coherence solely depends on effects of modulation instability and it is possible to tailor via
changing the input angle.
Optical fiber Nonlinear fiber Highly birefringent fiber Supercontinuum generation Polarization Coherence Negative nonlinear refractive index