IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Two-Octave Supercontinuum Generation of High-Order OAM Modes in Air-Core As₂S₃ Ring Fiber

  • Yingning Wang,
  • Changjing Bao,
  • Jicong Jiang,
  • Yuxi Fang,
  • Wenpu Geng,
  • Zhi Wang,
  • Weigang Zhang,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Yongxiong Ren,
  • Zhongqi Pan,
  • Yang Yue

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3002767
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 114135 – 114142

Abstract

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In this work, we design and simulate an air-core As2S3 ring fiber for high-order orbital angular momentum (OAM) supercontinuum generation. We show that the chromatic dispersion of the ring fiber can be substantially tailored by proper optimization of the air-core radius. Two-octave supercontinuum carrying OAM17,1 mode, spanning from 1560 to 6250 nm, is obtained by pumping a 50-fs 100-kW secant hyperbolic pulse centered at the wavelength of 3800 nm into the designed fiber with 50-μm air-core radius and 1-μm ring width. We further engineer the chromatic dispersion of some other OAM modes and perform simulations of supercontinuum spectra using different kilowatt-level peak power, which indicates that the fiber we design represents a promising avenue for supercontinuum generation of all the OAMl,1 modes (|l| ≤17). The proposed fiber is suitable for the transmission of OAM beams in infrared wavelength range and it could promote the development and application of high-order OAM beams.

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