Abstract
Smooth SC with ripples not exceeding 10 db is needed for many scientific applications. Among them are optical coherence tomography,1 high precision spectroscopy,2 generation of phase-stabilized short pulses.' Photonic crystal fibres (PCF) allow to generate SC covering more than 1 octave,4 but in many cases the spectrum fluctuations (even gaps) are too strong, limiting their direct applications. Commercial spectrai shapers are not good enough to provide shaping in the range 400-1200 nm.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
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