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Adrea R Johnson, Aline S Mayer, Alexander Klenner, Kevin Luke, Erin S Lamb, Michael R E Lamont, Chaitanya Joshi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Frank W Wise, Michal Lipson, Ursula Keller, Alexander L Gaeta.
Abstract
We demonstrate the generation of a supercontinuum spanning more than 1.4 octaves in a silicon nitride waveguide using sub-100-fs pulses at 1 μm generated by either a 53-MHz, diode-pumped ytterbium (Yb) fiber laser or a 1-GHz, Yb:CaAlGdO(4) (Yb:CALGO) laser. Our numerical simulations show that the broadband supercontinuum is fully coherent, and a spectral interference measurement is used to verify that the supercontinuum generated with the Yb:CALGO laser possesses a high degree of coherence over the majority of its spectral bandwidth. This coherent spectrum may be utilized for optical coherence tomography, spectroscopy, and frequency metrology.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26512533 DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.005117
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Opt Lett ISSN: 0146-9592 Impact factor: 3.776