Abstract: | In this paper, enhancement of bandwidth of supercontinuum generated in a normal dispersion-flattened microstructured fiber by using compressed pulse is demonstrated experimentally and numerically. Using high-order soliton compression effect, the standard single mode fiber is used as a pulse compressor. The experimental measured ?10 dB spectral width is broadened from 75 nm to more than 140 nm by adding a 20 m long standard single mode fiber. Numerical analysis shows that using pulse compressed by a certain length fiber can increase the spectral bandwidth without making extra amplitude noise. |