Numerical exploration of multi-octave spanned supercontinuum generation with high coherence in single material photonic crystal fiber

Abstract

We propose a single material microstructured optical fiber with more than five octave spanning supercontinuum generation. Due to using single material, compatibility checking between core and cladding material need not required. Moreover, the material is such chosen that optical transmission range is quite high in comparison to others. The fiber is designed in COMSOL platform and according to finite element method (FEM), numerical analysis is accomplished. Dispersion, confinement loss, nonlinearity etc. are investigated and exposed for a wavelength range of 2000–3000 nm. The proposed fiber reveals zero dispersion at 2200 nm, nonlinearity of 14,370 W−1km−1 and confinement loss around 10−9 order in dB/m. Finally, supercontinuum generation has been investigated inside the structure and obtained high coherence that span (from 1500 nm to 34,500 nm) over five octave. The generated spectrum fulfills the requirements for being applicable in frequency metrology, fiber laser and biophotonics. With the best of our knowing, such coherent and widened supercontinuua for single material fiber is yet to be proposed.

Keywords

• Zinc–germanium diphosphide
• Photonic crystal fiber
• Supercontinuum generation