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Nonlinear optical devices based on suspended-core microstructured optical fibers

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Abstract

Suspended-core microstructured optical fibers are employed in lasers that generate ultrashort pulses and supercontinuum generators. It is demonstrated that a femtosecond fiber laser based on the ytterbium-doped microstructured fiber generates pulses with a duration of 95 fs at a wavelength of 1045 nm and a mean power of 5 mW in the absence of additional compression. Supercontinuum is generated in tapered microstructured fibers with suspended core in the wavelength interval 400–1400 nm. Suspended-core micro-structured fibers may serve as promising elements for nonlinear optical devices due to specific waveguide characteristics, relative simplicity of manufacturing, and variable optical properties.

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  1. Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Mokhovaya ul. 11, korp. 7, Moscow, 125009, Russia

    A. Yu. Chamorovskiy & S. A. Nikitov

  2. Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere Technical University of Technology, PO Box 692, Tampere, 33101, Finland

    A. Yu. Chamorovskiy

  3. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    S. A. Nikitov

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Original Russian Text © A.Yu. Chamorovskiy, S.A. Nikitov, 2013, published in Radiotekhnika i Elektronika, 2013, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 891–904.

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Chamorovskiy, A.Y., Nikitov, S.A. Nonlinear optical devices based on suspended-core microstructured optical fibers. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 58, 879–890 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226913060053

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