Abstract

Supercontinuum light sources with large bandwidths are of considerable interest for many applications such as spectroscopy, optical communication, data storage, and biomedical analysis. Different approaches for improvement of the generation of spectrally smooth broadband spectrum were proposed. Microstructured fiber (MF) with two zerodispersion wavelengths [1], hybrig fibers [2], Bragg grating fibers [3] have specially designed dispersion properties to improve phase-matched nonlinear frequency conversion.

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