Abstract

Near-infrared supercontinuum generation by using silica-based highly-nonlinear fiber placed inside of the ring-cavity of an erbium-doped fiber laser pulsed by mode-locking is experimentally demonstrated. Only one erbium-doped fiber amplifier is employed to generate supercontinuum with a spectral width as long as 830 nm (from 1205 to 2035 nm) and a spectral power higher than $-30\mathrm{dBm}/\mathrm{nm}$. To generate supercontinuum, it is not necessary a second amplifier to raise the power of the laser pulses coupled into the nonlinear fiber. Moreover, all the devices employed are commercial and available at any photonics laboratory. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of this kind of device by pumping the nonlinear fiber in the third window of communications.

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