Polarized Supercontinuum Generation in CS₂-Core All-Normal Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fiber

Abstract

We numerically analyze a polarization maintaining (PM) supercontinuum generation (SCG) in all-normal dispersion liquid (CS2)-core photonic crystal fiber (LC-PCF). The proposed LC-PCF affords a high birefringence (10−3 to 10−2) from 1.0 μm to 2.2 μm wavelength with fundamental mode behavior. The linear polarization and high coherence spectral width for X and Y polarized axes covers 1.32 μm∼2.28 and 1.28 μm∼2.24 μm with pump wavelength of 1.55 μm at pump power of 2 kW, respectively. Furthermore, we found that the ability of maintaining linear polarization state of SC source for X-axes is better than that of Y-axes as the pulse duration varies from 0.05 ps to 0.6 ps at the same pump wavelength. In addition, the proposed LC-PCF-based SC source is a good candidate for applications such as biomedical imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging fields, and frequency comb sources.

Keywords

• Liquid core photonic optical fiber
• linear polarization state
• coherence
• supercontinuum generation