Mid-IR supercontinuum in optical fibers drawn from low phonon energy glasses

Frédéric Smektala; Arnaud Lemière; Anthony Maldonado; Paul Froidevaux; Frédéric Désévédavy; Bertrand Kibler

doi:10.1117/12.2563935

1 April 2020 Mid-IR supercontinuum in optical fibers drawn from low phonon energy glasses

Frédéric Smektala, Arnaud Lemière, Anthony Maldonado, Paul Froidevaux, Frédéric Désévédavy, Bertrand Kibler

Proceedings Volume 11357, Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications II; 113570Z (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563935
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Optical fibers mid-infrared (mid-IR) supercontinuum (SC) generation for sources covering the 1–20 μm range are of great interest for many applications in optics, spectroscopy, sensing for environmental monitoring or medical diagnosis and treatment. We present here our work regarding two low phonon energy glasses families, leading to highly nonlinear optical fibers for SC generation: tellurites and seleno-telluride glasses. Tellurite fibers are suitable for working in the 1-5 μm range, when seleno-telluride ones are intended to the 2-16 μm range. For tellurites, we focus on the definition of glass pairs suitable for the drawing of step index fibers with a controlled chromatic dispersion for a femto-second (fs) pumping around 2 μm. In the case of chalcogenide glasses, we focus on the Ge-Se-Te ternary system, which offers the advantage of allowing the drawing of step index or micro-structured fibers avoiding the usage of toxic arsenic. Depending on the fiber geometry the management of the chromatic dispersion is quite different. Suspended core fibers allow to shift deeply the unique zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) towards short wavelengths for fs pumping around 2- 3 μm. For step index fibers, it is possible to design waveguides with no, one or two ZDW. Various pumping schemes are available between 3 and 9 μm, with a fs tunable source. As a result, SC generation experiments in these different fibers allows to reach wide spanning spectra, between 1 and more than 5 μm for tellurite fibers, and between 2 and more than 14 μm in the case of chalcogenides ones.

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Frédéric Smektala, Arnaud Lemière, Anthony Maldonado, Paul Froidevaux, Frédéric Désévédavy, and Bertrand Kibler "Mid-IR supercontinuum in optical fibers drawn from low phonon energy glasses", Proc. SPIE 11357, Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications II, 113570Z (1 April 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563935

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