Dual-Wavelength Pumped Highly Birefringent Microstructured Silica Fiber for Widely Tunable Soliton Self-Frequency Shift

Olga Szewczyk; Piotr Pala; Karol Tarnowski; Jacek Olszewski; Francisco Senna Vieira; Chuang Lu; Aleksandra Foltynowicz; Pawel Mergo; Jaroslaw Sotor; Grzegorz Sobon; Tadeusz Martynkien

doi:10.1109/JLT.2021.3057657

Dual-Wavelength Pumped Highly Birefringent Microstructured Silica Fiber for Widely Tunable Soliton Self-Frequency Shift

Olga Szewczyk
, Piotr Pala
, Karol Tarnowski
, Jacek Olszewski
, Francisco Senna Vieira
, Chuang Lu
, Aleksandra Foltynowicz
, Pawel Mergo
, Jaroslaw Sotor
, Grzegorz Sobon^*
, Tadeusz Martynkien

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Umeå University
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

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Abstract

We report the design of a microstructured silica-based fiber for widely tunable soliton self-frequency shift, suitable for pumping with two most common fiber laser wavelengths: 1.04 and 1.55 μm. Depending on the pump source, the output spectrum can be continuously tuned up to 1.67 (pump at 1.04 μm) or 1.95 μm (pump at 1.55 μm) in the same 1.5 m-long fiber sample, with pump-To-soliton conversion efficiency higher than 20%. The fiber is highly birefringent, which results in an excellent polarization extinction ratio of the soliton, reaching 26 dB. The shifted solitons have a high degree of coherence confirmed by pulse-To-pulse interference measurement. The available soliton tuning range covers the wavelengths inaccessible for fiber lasers, e.g., 1.3 μm and 1.7, highly important for multi-photon microscopy and imaging. Our work shows that it is possible to design and fabricate one universal optical fiber that supports soliton shift when pumped at two different wavelengths separated by over 500 nm.

Original language	English
Article number	9350157
Pages (from-to)	3260-3268
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	39
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2021.3057657
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Manuscript received November 28, 2020; revised February 1, 2021; accepted February 3, 2021. Date of publication February 8, 2021; date of current version May 16, 2021. This work was supported in part by the National Centre for Research and Development under Grant POIR.04.01.01-00-0037/17 and in part by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation under Grant KAW 2015.0159. (Corresponding author: Grzegorz Soboń.) Olga Szewczyk, Jarosław Sotor, and Grzegorz Soboń are with the Laser & Fiber Electronics Group, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).

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Fiber nonlinear optics
optical solitons
optical wavelength conversion

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Szewczyk, O., Pala, P., Tarnowski, K., Olszewski, J., Senna Vieira, F., Lu, C., Foltynowicz, A., Mergo, P., Sotor, J., Sobon, G., & Martynkien, T. (2021). Dual-Wavelength Pumped Highly Birefringent Microstructured Silica Fiber for Widely Tunable Soliton Self-Frequency Shift. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(10), 3260-3268. Article 9350157. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2021.3057657

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