Supercontinuum generation in a photonic crystal fibre using picosecond pulses at 1550 nm
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Andersen, P.A.; Peucheret, C.; Hilligsoe, K.M.; Berg, K.S.; Hansen, K.P.; Jeppesen, P.
- Source
- Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Transparent optical networks Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on. 1:66-69 vol.1 2003
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Supercontinuum generation
Photonic crystal fibers
Optical pulse generation
Space vector pulse width modulation
Band pass filters
Optical fiber filters
Filtering
Fiber nonlinear optics
Nonlinear optics
Optical filters
- Language
Supercontinuum (SC) generation is demonstrated in a photonic crystal fibre (PCF) at 1550 nm with pulse widths of 0.3 to 2.5 ps. Subsequent band-pass filtering of the generated SC spectrum enables the realisation of an optical clock frequency translator continuously tunable up to the L-band.