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High-power supercontinuum lasers with a flat blue spectrum through pump modulation: a numerical study
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We numerically investigate high-power, modulational instability-based supercontinuum sources. Such sources have spectra that reach the infrared material absorption edge and as a result the spectrum has a strong narrow blue peak (dispersive wave group velocity matched to solitons at the infrared loss edge) followed by a significant dip in the neighboring longer-wavelength region. In a wide range of applications one prefers a broader and more flat blue part within a certain minimum and maximum power spectral density. From the perspective of fiber degradation it would be desirable to achieve this at reduced pump peak pow-ers. We show that it is possible to improve the flatness by more than a factor of 3 by modulating the input peak power, although this comes at the expense of slightly higher relative intensity noise. Specifically, we consider a standard 6.6 W, 80 MHz supercontinuum source with a 455 nm blue edge, which uses 7 ps pump pulses. We then modulate its peak power to generate a pump pulse train having two and three different sub-pulses. (c) 2023 Optica Publishing Group
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GENERATION
PULSE
FIBER
MICROSCOPY