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Broadband third harmonic generation in tapered silica fibres

Broadband third harmonic generation in tapered silica fibres
Broadband third harmonic generation in tapered silica fibres
Optical microfibres have recently attracted much attention for nonlinear applications, due to their tight modal confinement. Here, we report broadband third harmonic generation based on the intermodal phase matching technique in silica microfibres of several centimetres. The third harmonic signal is predominantly generated from the taper transition regions (rather than the waist), wherein the range of diameters permits phase matching over a wide bandwidth. Microfibres up to 4.5 cm long were fabricated with waist diameters below 2.5 µm to allow a lambda = 1.55 µm pump to phase match with several higher order third harmonic modes; conversion rates up to 3 x 10-4 were recorded when pumped with 4 ns pulses at a peak power of 1.25 kW. Analysis of the third harmonic frequencies generated from the nonlinearly broadened pump components indicate a 5 dB conversion bandwidth of at least 36 nm, with harmonic power detected over a 150 nm range.
1094-4087
8503-8511
Lee, Timothy
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Jung, Yongmin
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Codemard, Christophe A.
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Ding, Ming
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Broderick, Neil G.R.
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Codemard, Christophe A.
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Ding, Ming
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Broderick, Neil G.R.
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Lee, Timothy, Jung, Yongmin, Codemard, Christophe A., Ding, Ming, Broderick, Neil G.R. and Brambilla, Gilberto (2012) Broadband third harmonic generation in tapered silica fibres. Optics Express, 20 (8), 8503-8511. (doi:10.1364/OE.20.008503).

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Optical microfibres have recently attracted much attention for nonlinear applications, due to their tight modal confinement. Here, we report broadband third harmonic generation based on the intermodal phase matching technique in silica microfibres of several centimetres. The third harmonic signal is predominantly generated from the taper transition regions (rather than the waist), wherein the range of diameters permits phase matching over a wide bandwidth. Microfibres up to 4.5 cm long were fabricated with waist diameters below 2.5 µm to allow a lambda = 1.55 µm pump to phase match with several higher order third harmonic modes; conversion rates up to 3 x 10-4 were recorded when pumped with 4 ns pulses at a peak power of 1.25 kW. Analysis of the third harmonic frequencies generated from the nonlinearly broadened pump components indicate a 5 dB conversion bandwidth of at least 36 nm, with harmonic power detected over a 150 nm range.

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Published date: 9 April 2012
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 337277
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/337277
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 28cc259e-fab5-4ce3-978d-d67df8978c06
ORCID for Timothy Lee: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9665-5578
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for Gilberto Brambilla: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-0499

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Date deposited: 20 Apr 2012 15:48
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:31

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Author: Timothy Lee ORCID iD
Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: Christophe A. Codemard
Author: Ming Ding
Author: Neil G.R. Broderick
Author: Gilberto Brambilla ORCID iD

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