Effect of initial chirp on near-infrared supercontinuum generation by a nanosecond pulse in a nonlinear fiber amplifier |
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| Authors: | Song Rui Hou Jing Wang Ze-Feng Xiao Rui and Lu Qi-Sheng |
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| Affiliation: | [1]College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China [2]Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing 100850, China |
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| Abstract: | Theoretical and experimental research on the effect of initial chirp on near-infrared supercontinuum generation by a nanosecond pulse in a nonlinear fiber amplifier is carried out. The complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is used to simulate the propagation of the pulse in the fiber amplifier and the results show that pulses with negative initial chirp produce the widest supercontinuum and pulses with positive initial chirp produce the narrowest supercontinuum when the central wavelength of the pump lies in the normal dispersion region of the gain fiber. A self-made line width narrowing system is utilized to control the initial chirp of the nanosecond pump pulse and a four-stage master oscillator power amplifier configuration is adopted to produce a high power near-infrared suppercontinuum. The experimental results are in good agreement with simulations which can provide some guidance on further optimization of the system in future work. |
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| Keywords: | fiber laser supercontinuum initial chirp fiber amplifier |
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