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GLS and GLSSe ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

GLS and GLSSe ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides for mid-IR supercontinuum generation
GLS and GLSSe ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides for mid-IR supercontinuum generation
Using the ultrafast laser inscription technique, buried channel waveguides have been fabricated in gallium lanthanum sulfide and gallium lanthanum sulfide selenide glasses to demonstrate the suitability of the materials for supercontinuum generation in the mid-IR. Supercontinuum generation was performed using 100 femtosecond pump pulses with micro-Joule pulse energies and a center wavelength of 4.6 µm, which is in the anomalous dispersion regime for these waveguides. Under such pump conditions, supercontinuum was obtained covering a 25-dB-bandwidth of up to 6.1 μm with a long-wavelength edge of 8 µm. To our knowledge, this represents the broadest and the longest-wavelength IR supercontinuum generated from an ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide to date.
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Mackenzie, Mark, Morris, James, Petersen, Christian, Ravagli, Andrea, Craig, Christopher, Hewak, Daniel, Bookey, Henry, Bang, Ole and Kar, Ajoy (2019) GLS and GLSSe ultrafast laser inscribed waveguides for mid-IR supercontinuum generation. Optical Materials Express, 9 (2), 643-651. (doi:10.1364/OME.9.000643).

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Using the ultrafast laser inscription technique, buried channel waveguides have been fabricated in gallium lanthanum sulfide and gallium lanthanum sulfide selenide glasses to demonstrate the suitability of the materials for supercontinuum generation in the mid-IR. Supercontinuum generation was performed using 100 femtosecond pump pulses with micro-Joule pulse energies and a center wavelength of 4.6 µm, which is in the anomalous dispersion regime for these waveguides. Under such pump conditions, supercontinuum was obtained covering a 25-dB-bandwidth of up to 6.1 μm with a long-wavelength edge of 8 µm. To our knowledge, this represents the broadest and the longest-wavelength IR supercontinuum generated from an ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide to date.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 December 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 January 2019
Published date: 1 February 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 427706
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427706
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ORCID for Christopher Craig: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6919-4294
ORCID for Daniel Hewak: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2093-5773

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Author: Mark Mackenzie
Author: James Morris
Author: Christian Petersen
Author: Andrea Ravagli
Author: Daniel Hewak ORCID iD
Author: Henry Bookey
Author: Ole Bang
Author: Ajoy Kar

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