Pierre-Alain Champert, Vincent Couderc, Philippe Leproux, Sébastien Février, Vincent Tombelaine, Laurent Labonté, Philippe Roy, Claude Froehly, and Philippe Nérin
ABSTRACT
We report on the experimental demonstration of a white-light supercontinuum generation in normally dispersive singlemode air-silica microstructured fiber. We demonstrate that the simultaneous excitation of the microstuctured fiber in its normal and anomalous dispersion regimes using the fundamental and second harmonic signals of a passively Q-switched microchip laser leads to a homogeneous supercontinuum in the visible range. This pumping scheme allows the suppression of the cascaded Raman effect predominance in favor of an efficient spectrum broadening induced by parametric phenomena. A flat supercontinuum extended from 400 to 700 nm is achieved.
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