Manipulation of infrared dispersive waves in customized microstructured optical fibers for 1.7 and 2.0 μm light sources

We demonstrate the controllable generation of infrared dispersive waves (DWs) from customized, in-house fabricated silica microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) by manipulating the location of zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) through the structure of the fibers. The highly enriched shaping mechanism of arrested soliton in the MOFs with two ZDWs provides a technique for efficient energy transfer into the targeted eye-safe wavelengths at 1.7 and 2.0 mu m by the virtue of DW formation. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America