Progress on supercontinuum generation of highly nonlinear fibers at NTSC

Authors :: Songtao Fan
Wenge Guo
Pan Zhang
Lulu Yan
Xiao-Fei Zhang
Shougang Zhang
Yanyan Zhang
Haifeng Jiang
Source :: Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science.
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: OSA, 2018.
Abstract: We report on supercontinuum generation in four types of highly-nonlinear-fibers (HNLFs) pumped by 1.56-μm laser solitons. Experimental measurement results provide guidelines for choosing and using HNLFs for erbium-fiber-based optical frequency combs and their applications.