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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/COPP.2021.5.3.250

Midinfrared Pulse Compression in a Dispersion-decreasing and Nonlinearity-increasing Tapered As2S3 Photonic Crystal Fiber  

Shen, Jianping (College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications)
Zhang, Siwei (College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications)
Wang, Wei (College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications)
Li, Shuguang (State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University)
Zhang, Song (State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University)
Wang, Yujun (State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology & Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University)
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Current Optics and Photonics / v.5, no.3, 2021 , pp. 250-260 More about this Journal
Abstract
A tapered As2S3 photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with four layers of air holes in a hexagonal array around the core is designed in this paper. Numerical simulation shows that the dispersion D decreases and the nonlinearity coefficient γ increases from the thick to the thin end along the tapered PCF. We simulate the midinfrared pulse compression in the tapered As2S3 PCF using the adaptive split-step Fourier method. Initial Gaussian pulses of 4.4 ps and a central wavelength of 2.5 ㎛ propagating in the tapered PCF are located in the anomalous dispersion region. With an average power of assumed input pulses at 3 mW and a repetition frequency of 81.0 MHz, we theoretically obtain a pulse duration of 56 fs and a compression factor of 78 when the pulse propagates from the thick end to the thin end of the tapered PCF. When confinement loss in the tapered PCF is included in the simulation, the minimum pulse duration reaches 72 fs; correspondingly, the maximum compression factor reaches 61. The results show that in the anomalous-dispersion region, midinfrared pulses can be efficiently compressed in a dispersion-decreasing and nonlinearity-increasing tapered As2S3 PCF. Due to confinement loss in the tapered fiber, the efficiency of pulse compression is suppressed.
Keywords
$As_2S_3$ photonic crystal fiber; Mid-infrared; Pulse compression;
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