Chin. Phys. Lett.  2010, Vol. 27 Issue (7): 074209    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/27/7/074209
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Supercontinuum Generation with High Birefringence SF6 Soft Glass Photonic Crystal Fibers

FU Bo, LI Shu-Guang, YAO Yan-Yan, ZHANG Lei, ZHANG Mei-Yan

Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, College of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004
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FU Bo, LI Shu-Guang, YAO Yan-Yan et al  2010 Chin. Phys. Lett. 27 074209
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A kind of high birefringence SF6 soft glass photonic crystal fiber (HBSF6-PCF) is proposed. The properties of birefringence, dispersion, nonlinear coefficient and the transmission characteristics are studied by the multipole method and the adaptive split-step Fourier method. The numerical results show that the birefringence and the nonlinear coefficient reach the orders of 10-2 and 10-1, respectively. In addition, the HBSF6-PCFs can generate very smooth supercontinuum spectra when illuminated with femtosecond pulsed light of 1064 nm. It is found that up to 800 nm spectral width (evaluated at -5 dB from the peak) is achieved. Therefore, the advantage of the HBSF6-PCFs is such that a high birefringence, a high nonlinearity and a smooth supercontinuum are perfectly combined in them.

Keywords: 42.81.-i      42.81.Gs     
Received: 23 April 2010      Published: 28 June 2010
PACS:  42.81.-i (Fiber optics)  
  42.81.Gs (Birefringence, polarization)  
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