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In this paper, an Ytterbium-doped V-shape photonic crystal fiber (Yb-VPCF) with low dispersion and high nonlinearity is designed and fabricated in our laboratory. Through coupling femtosecond pulses into the fundamental mode of Yb-VPCF, the tunable anti-Stokes signals at the visible wavelength are efficiently generated based on the phase-matching four-wave mixing. When the pump wavelength is changed from 810, to 820, and to 830 nm and the input average power is increased from 0.4, to 0.5, and to 0.6 W, respectively, the anti-Stokes signals are generated within the wavelength range of 562–477 nm. The wavelength-tunable range is over 100 nm, and the maximum power ratio of anti-Stokes signal at 477 nm and the residual pump at 830 nm can be up to 23.9:1. The anti-Stokes signals generated can be used as the ultrashort pulse sources for ultrafast optoelectronics and spectroscopy.
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This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61307109 and 61475023), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4152037), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20120005120021), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2013RC1202), the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (BUPT) of China, the Hong Kong Scholars Program 2013 (PolyU G-YZ45), and the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region China (PolyU5272/12E).
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Li, L., Yuan, J., Sang, X. et al. Generation of visible wavelength by the phase-matching four-wave mixing in an Yb-doped V-shape photonic crystal fiber. Appl. Phys. B 120, 117–122 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-015-6110-4
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