Abstract
Optical Cherenkov radiation (OCR) is referred to as dispersive wave (DW) generation or non-solitonic radiation originating from soliton propagation perturbed by high order dispersion (HOD). The OCR becomes of particular importance for octave-spanning spectral broadening and blue-shifted supercontinuum generation (SCG) [1]. When the OCR generation lies in the anomalous GVD region and tends to be a soliton state, the phase-matching (PM) condition between linear DWs and the soliton could become a soliton PM condition: βs(ωs) = βs(ωr), provided that vg(ωs) = vg(ωr). βs(ωk) ≡ β (ωk) + (ω − ωk)/vg(ωk) + qk reflects the nondispersive nature of the soliton at the center frequency ωk and vg(ωk) is the group velocity. k = r, s represents the radiation or soliton wave. A sharp spectral switching of the soliton due to the soliton spectral tunneling (SST) effect in the photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) can occur across a normal group velocity dispersion (GVD) region, which is sandwiched in the anomalous GVD regions [2]. This approach shows a new efficient wavelength conversion scheme, and we explore the cascaded OCR to enlarge the span of the wavelength conversion.
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