Broadband supercontinuum generation with low peak power in a circular lattice nitrobenzene-core photonic crystal fiber
Authors: Trong Dang Van and Lanh Chu Van
Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute
: 50 : 318–331
Publishing year: 9/2023
We highlight the advantage of varying the filling factor d1/Λ in the first cladding ring of
a nitrobenzene-core (C6H5NO2-core) photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a circular lattice in improving
the fiber nonlinearity. Joint optimization of feature sets can be achieved to achieve flat dispersion,
small effective mode area, and low loss while controlling structural parameters such as filling factor
(d1/Λ) and lattice constant (Λ). Two optimal PCFs were selected and studied in detail for broadband
and low peak power supercontinuum generation. The first PCF with a lattice constant (Λ) of 1.0 μm
and a filling factor of 0.65 has an all-normal dispersion in the wavelength range from 0.5 to 2.0 μm.
When a 90 fs pulse centered at 1.3 μm is pumped into a 1 cm long fiber with a peak power of only
133 W, the supercontinuum spectrum produced extends from the visible to the near-infrared (0.72–
1.722 μm) range. On the other hand, a second PCF with Λ of 2.0 μm and d1/Λ of 0.3 has anomalous
dispersion and has a zero dispersion wavelength at 1.547 μm. By using a 110 fs input pulse with a peak
power of 273 W and a pump wavelength of 1.56 μm, broad SC generation with a spectral bandwidth
of 0.795–3.748 μm was achieved for a 15 cm long sample. The proposed design could become a new
class of microstructured optical fibers for the broadband supercontinuum generation
photonic crystal fiber (PCF), nitrobenzene-core (C6H5NO2-core), circular lattice, supercontinuum generation, all-normal dispersion, anomalous dispers