Abstract

The Supercontinuum generation (SCG) using photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is the technology of choice for the next generation of ultrabroadband sources of coherent light. SCG is a process which dramatically broadens the spectral shape from the narrow initial spectrum, mainly induced by soliton fission and pulse breaking arising due to higher order effects of soliton related dynamics such as higher order linear dispersion terms, Raman soliton self-frequency shift, and spectral recoil. At higher peak power, Kerr nonlinear response is insufficient to predict the nonlinear response of the medium rather require saturable nonlinear response to figure out the overall nonlinear response of the medium [1,2]

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