18 November 2022 Highly coherent mid-infrared supercontinuum generations in a strip titanium dioxide waveguide with three zero-dispersion wavelengths
Jinye Shen, Jinhui Yuan, Yujun Cheng, Chao Mei, Jintao Lai, Xian Zhou, Qiang Wu, Binbin Yan, Kuiru Wang, Chongxiu Yu, Xinzhu Sang
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Abstract

A strip titanium dioxide (TiO2) waveguide is designed for highly coherent mid-infrared (MIR) supercontinuum (SC) generation. For the designed TiO2 waveguide, three zero-dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs) are obtained through adjusting the waveguide structure parameters. The three ZDWs are located at 1.53, 3.96, and 5.43 μm, respectively. The nonlinearity coefficient γ is calculated as 1.12 W − 1 m − 1 at wavelength 3.1 μm. By optimizing the pump pulse parameters, the highly coherent MIR SCs are generated when the hyperbolic secant pump pulse with a duration of 80 fs, peak power of 1 kW, and wavelength of 3.1 μm is launched into the TiO2 waveguide and propagated 4.2-mm in length. The obtained SC covers a wavelength range from 1.71 to 9.90 μm (more than 2.5 octaves). Our research results can find important applications in MIR photonics and spectroscopy, biophotonics, optical precision measurement, etc.

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Jinye Shen, Jinhui Yuan, Yujun Cheng, Chao Mei, Jintao Lai, Xian Zhou, Qiang Wu, Binbin Yan, Kuiru Wang, Chongxiu Yu, and Xinzhu Sang "Highly coherent mid-infrared supercontinuum generations in a strip titanium dioxide waveguide with three zero-dispersion wavelengths," Optical Engineering 61(11), 117104 (18 November 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.11.117104
Received: 15 June 2022; Accepted: 2 November 2022; Published: 18 November 2022
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Supercontinuum generation

Dispersion

Titanium dioxide

Mid infrared

Wave propagation

Picosecond phenomena

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