Cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating analysis of broadband continuum generation in photonic crystal fiber: simulations and experiments

One of the most exciting recent developments in optics has been the generation of ultrabroadband supercontinuum, accomplished simply by injecting readily available low-power ultrashort pulses into microstructure or tapered fibers. The resulting supercontinuum pulse, however, is the most complex ultrashort pulse of light ever created. The group of Professor Rick Trebino has measured this pulse and, in collaboration with John Dudley at the University of Comte in France, elucidated its physics. The movie shown is the computed spectrogram of this pulse as it propagates through the fiber.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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