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Optical supercontinuum generation from nanosecond pump pulses in an irregularly microstructured air-silica optical fiber

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An optical supercontinuum was generated by pumping a short length of randomly microstructured air-silica optical fiber with a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The use of relatively long pump pulses and a longer pump wavelength are believed to be responsible for an improvement in results relative to similar previous reports. A figure of merit for optical continuum generation is defined, and is shown to be considerably larger in this and other experiments in which stimulated Raman scattering, instead of self-phase modulation, is the primary nonlinear process seeding spectral broadening.

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Town, G., Funaba, T., Ryan, T. et al. Optical supercontinuum generation from nanosecond pump pulses in an irregularly microstructured air-silica optical fiber. Appl Phys B 77, 235–238 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1192-9

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