Compact white-light source with an average output power of 2.4 W and 900 nm spectral bandwidth

摘要

The appropriate combination of a passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 pump laser with 10 ps pump pulse duration at 1064 nm and a dispersion-adapted air-silica microstructured fiber generates efficiently supercontinuum radiation with an average power of 2.4 W in a spectral range from 700 to 1600 nm. The presented setup allows a very compact design of the white-light source. By means of experimental results will be shown, that newly generated frequency components mainly originate from self-phase modulation, parametric four-wave mixing as well as stimulated Raman amplification. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. [References: 6]