Abstract

Submillimeter-scale dispersion micromanagement (DMM) is used to generate coherent and stable femtosecond visible pulses in holey fibers as short as $10\mathrm{mm}$. The longitudinal variation of the phase-matching conditions for Čerenkov radiation and four-wave mixing explains the results well. We have converted up to 20% of the total input energy to a low-noise solitary wave with a bandwidth up to $50\mathrm{nm}$ in the range $385–625\mathrm{nm}$ by using holey fibers with various DMM designs.

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Generation, characterization, and application of broadband coherent femtosecond visible pulses in dispersion micromanaged holey fibers

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