Controlled supercontinua via spatial beam shaping Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Recently, optimization techniques have had a significant impact in a variety of fields, leading to a higher signal-to-noise and more streamlined techniques. We consider the possibility for using programmable phase-only spatial optimization of the pump beam to influence the supercontinuum generation process. Preliminary results show that significant broadening and rough control of the supercontinuum spectrum in the visible region are possible without loss of input energy. This serves as a proof-of-concept demonstration that spatial effects can controllably influence the supercontinuum spectrum, leading to possibilities for utilizing supercontinuum power more efficiently and achieving excellent spectral control.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhdanova, A. A., Shen, Y., Thompson, J. V., Scully, M. O., Yakovlev, V. V., & Sokolov, A. V.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Zhdanova, Alexandra A||Shen, Yujie||Thompson, Jonathan V||Scully, Marlan O||Yakovlev, Vladislav V||Sokolov, Alexei V

publication date

  • June 2018