Supercontinuum generation in the black light region by pumping at 355 nm a silica photonic crystal fiber
Sylvestre T, Ragueh AR, Lee MW, Stiller B, Fanjoux G, Barviau B, Mussot A, Kudlinski A (2012)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2012
Journal
Book Volume: 8434
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISBN: 9780819491268
DOI: 10.1117/12.922769
Abstract
We have developed a fibre-based source of "black light", a source that emits broadband ultraviolet radiation but only small amounts of visible light and no infrared light. We made this source by pumping a specially designed silica photonic crystal fibre with 355 nm light pulses from a Q-switched frequency-tripled Nd:YAG laser. Four-wave mixing and cascaded Raman generation combine in the fibre to provide a broadband continuum output that spans from around 350 nm to 390-470 nm, with the exact spectral width dependent on the pump power. We discuss the main limitations in terms of bandwidth and power due to temporal walk-off, fiber attenuation and solarization and we suggest simple solutions for further progress. This broadband black-light source could be useful for performing gas absorption spectroscopy or exciting various fluorescent proteins used in biological studies. © 2012 Copyright Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
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Université de Franche-Comté
France (FR)
L’Institut de Recherche sur les Composants logiciels et matériels pour l’Information et la Communication Avancée (IRCICA) / Research Institute on software and hardware devices for information and Advanced communication
France (FR)
France (FR)
L’Institut de Recherche sur les Composants logiciels et matériels pour l’Information et la Communication Avancée (IRCICA) / Research Institute on software and hardware devices for information and Advanced communication
France (FR)
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APA:
Sylvestre, T., Ragueh, A.R., Lee, M.W., Stiller, B., Fanjoux, G., Barviau, B.,... Kudlinski, A. (2012). Supercontinuum generation in the black light region by pumping at 355 nm a silica photonic crystal fiber. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
MLA:
Sylvestre, Thibaut, et al. "Supercontinuum generation in the black light region by pumping at 355 nm a silica photonic crystal fiber." Proceedings of the Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI 2012.
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