Photonics (Jun 2022)

Partial Amplification of Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum in the Spectral Region of 1.5–2.2 μm

  • Irina V. Zhluktova,
  • Andrei D. Zverev,
  • Serafima A. Filatova,
  • Vladimir A. Kamynin,
  • Alexej A. Sysoliatin,
  • Vladimir B. Tsvetkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9060397
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 6
p. 397

Abstract

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Octave-spanning supercontinuum conversion in three different rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers have been investigated. Using an erbium amplifier, it turned out to increase the output power to 445 mW with a spectral width of 1250 nm. For a thulium amplifier, an average output power of 390 mW and a spectral width of 569 nm was obtained. Additionally, for holmium, the average output power was 724 mW with a spectral width of 450 nm. For all cases, the output pulses envelope did not exceed 0.72 ns.

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