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Picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output power

Picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output power
Picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output power
We report a picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output, spanning at least 0.4-2.25 µm at a repetition rate of 114.8 MHz. The 2m long PCF had a large, 4.4 µm diameter core and a high-delta design which led to an 80% coupling efficiency, high damage threshold and rapid generation of visible continuum generation from the picosecond input pulses. The high and relatively uniform power density across the visible spectral region was ~31.7 mW/nm corresponding to peak power density of ~12.5 W/nm for the 21 ps input pulses. The peak power density was increased to 26.9 W/nm by reducing the repetition rate to 28 MHz. This represents an increase in both average and peak power compared to previously reported visible supercontinuum sources from either CW pumped or pulsed-systems.
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Pal, Mrinmay
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Chen, Kang Kang, Alam, Shaif-ul, Price, Jonathan H.V., Hayes, John R., Lin, Dejiao, Malinowski, Andrew, Codemard, Christophe, Ghosh, Debashri, Pal, Mrinmay, Bhadra, Shyamal K. and Richardson, David J. (2010) Picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output power. Optics Express, 18 (6), 5426-5432. (doi:10.1364/OE.18.005426).

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We report a picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output, spanning at least 0.4-2.25 µm at a repetition rate of 114.8 MHz. The 2m long PCF had a large, 4.4 µm diameter core and a high-delta design which led to an 80% coupling efficiency, high damage threshold and rapid generation of visible continuum generation from the picosecond input pulses. The high and relatively uniform power density across the visible spectral region was ~31.7 mW/nm corresponding to peak power density of ~12.5 W/nm for the 21 ps input pulses. The peak power density was increased to 26.9 W/nm by reducing the repetition rate to 28 MHz. This represents an increase in both average and peak power compared to previously reported visible supercontinuum sources from either CW pumped or pulsed-systems.

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Published date: March 2010
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 178111
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/178111
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 7e441299-3ce1-41dd-98a8-5830cfc5095d
ORCID for Jonathan H.V. Price: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0256-9172
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 23 Mar 2011 09:10
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:41

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Author: Kang Kang Chen
Author: Shaif-ul Alam
Author: Jonathan H.V. Price ORCID iD
Author: John R. Hayes
Author: Dejiao Lin
Author: Andrew Malinowski
Author: Debashri Ghosh
Author: Mrinmay Pal
Author: Shyamal K. Bhadra

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