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JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS
Volume 63, Issue 19, Pages 1965-1971Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09500340.2016.1183055
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Supercontinuum generation; planar waveguides; nonlinear optics
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We numerically demonstrate mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a non-uniformly tapered chalcogenide planar waveguide. This planar rib waveguide of As2S3 glass on MgF2 is 2 cm long with increasing etch depth longitudinally to manage the total dispersion. This waveguide has zero dispersion at two wavelengths. The dispersion profile varies along the propagation distance, leading to continuous modification of the phase-matching condition for dispersive wave emission and enhancement of energy transfer efficiency between solitons and dispersive waves. Numerical simulations are conducted for secant input pulses at a wavelength of 1.55 mu m with a width of 50 fs and peak power of 2 kW. Results show this proposed scheme significantly broadens the generated continuum, extending from similar to 1 to similar to 7 mu m.
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