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Observation of Brillouin scattering in a high-index doped silica chip waveguide
M. Zerbib, V. T. Hoang, J. C. Beugnot +7
We report the observation of Brillouin backscattering in a 50-cm long spiral high-index doped silica chip waveguide and measured a Brillouin frequency shift of 16 GHz which is in v…
Ultralow-Noise Optical Parametric Amplifier for Stimulated Raman Scattering Imaging
Ines Martin, Yoann Pertot, Olivier Albert +14
We present a 40-MHz ultrafast optical parametric amplifier (OPA), tunable from 0.8 to 1 m, with a relative intensity noise (RIN) matching the shot-noise floor (-160 dB/Hz) above…
Spin-orbit interaction in nanofiber-based Brillouin scattering
Maxime Zerbib, Maxime Romanet, Thibaut Sylvestre +4
Angular momentum is an important physical property that plays a key role in light-matter interactions such as spin-orbit interaction. Here, we investigate theoretically and experim…
Noise in supercontinuum generated using PM and non-PM tellurite glass all-normal dispersion fibers
Shreesha Rao D. S., Tanvi Karpate, Amar Nath Ghosh +8
Intensity fluctuations in supercontinuum generation are studied in polarization-maintaining (PM) and non-PM all-normal dispersion tellurite photonic crystal fibers. Dispersive Four…
Cross-Phase Modulation Instability in PM ANDi Fiber-Based Supercontinuum Generation
Etienne Genier, Amar N. Ghosh, Swetha Bobba +5
We demonstrate broadband supercontinuum generation in an all-normal dispersion polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber and we report the observation of a cross-phase modula…
Nanoimprinting and Tapering of Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibers for Cascaded Supercontinuum Generation
Christian R. Petersen, Mikkel B. Lotz, Getinet Woyessa +7
Improved long-wavelength transmission and supercontinuum (SC) generation is demonstrated by anti-reflective (AR) nanoimprinting and tapering of chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers…
Chalcogenide-glass polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber for mid-infrared supercontinuum generation
A. N. Ghosh, M. Meneghetti, C. R. Petersen +6
In this paper, we report the design and fabrication of a highly birefringent polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) made from chalcogenide glass, and its applicat…
Nonlinear elasticity of silica nanofiber
Adrien Godet, Thibaut Sylvestre, Vincent Pécheur +3
Optical nanofibers (ONFs) are excellent nanophotonic platforms for various applications such as optical sensing, quantum and nonlinear optics, due to both the tight optical confine…
Supercontinuum Generation in Heavy-Metal Oxide Glass Based Suspended-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers
A. N. Ghosh, M. Klimczak, R. Buczynski +2
We investigate supercontinuum generation in several suspended-core soft-glass photonic crystal fibers pumped by an optical parametric oscillator tunable around 1550 nm. The fibers…
Amplitude noise and coherence degradation of femtosecond supercontinuum generation in all-normal-dispersion fibers
Etienne Genier, Patrick Bowen, Thibaut Sylvestre +3
Supercontinuum (SC) generation via femtosecond (fs) pumping in all-normal-dispersion (ANDi) fiber is predicted to offer completely coherent broadening mechanisms, potentially allow…
Nested-capillary anti-resonant silica fiber with mid-infrared transmission and low bending sensitivity at 4000 nm
Mariusz Klimczak, Dominik Dobrakowski, Amar Nath Ghosh +5
We report a silica glass nested capillary anti-resonant nodeless fiber with transmission and low bending sensitivity in the mid-infrared around 4000 nm. The fiber is characterized…
Brillouin phonon cooling by electro-optic feedback
Kien Phan Huy, Adrien Godet, Thibaut Sylvestre +1
We theoretically investigate the cooling of a propagating phonon through Brillouin scattering. To that end, we propose to introduce an external viscous force using Brillouin scatte…
Brillouin spectroscopy of optical microwires
Adrien Godet, Abdoulaye Ndao, Thibaut Sylvestre +5
We describe an easy-to-implement technique that allows for a complete experimental characterization of sub-wavelength diameter tapered optical fibers. Our method is based on a dire…
Universal Peregrine soliton structure in nonlinear pulse compression in optical fiber
A. Tikan, C. Billet, G. El +8
We present experimental evidence of the universal emergence of the Peregrine soliton predicted in the semi-classical (zero-dispersion) limit of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger e…
Parametric frequency fusion by inverse four-wave mixing
Thibaut Sylvestre
This work reports the experimental observation of a new type of four-wave mixing in which frequency-degenerate weak signal and idler waves are generated by mixing two pump waves of…
Stimulated Brillouin scattering revisited: Strong coupling regime and Rabi splitting
Kien Phan Huy, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Joel Cabrel Tchahame +1
Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical waveguides is a fundamental interaction between light and acoustic waves mediated by electrostriction and photoelasticity. In this paper,…
Cascaded Brillouin lasing in monolithic barium fluoride whispering gallery mode resonators
Guoping Lin, Souleymane Diallo, Khaldoun Saleh +4
We report the observation of stimulated Brillouin scattering and lasing at 1550~nm in barium fluoride (BaF) crystal. Brillouin lasing was achieved with ultra-high quality ()…
Far detuned mid-infrared frequency conversion via normal dispersion modulation instability in chalcogenide microwire
Thomas Godin, Yves Combes, Raja Ahmad +3
We report the observation of modulation instability in the mid-infrared spectral region by pumping a hybrid polymer-chalcogenide optical microwire with a femtosecond optical parame…
Stimulated Brillouin scattering from surface acoustic waves in sub-wavelength photonic microwires
Jean-Charles Beugnot, Sylvie Lebrun, Gilles Pauliat +3
Brillouin scattering in optical fibres is a fundamental interaction between light and sound with important implications ranging from optical sensors to slow and fast light. In usua…
Real time noise and wavelength correlations in octave-spanning supercontinuum generation
T. Godin, B. Wetzel, T. Sylvestre +8
We use dispersive Fourier transformation to measure shot-to-shot spectral instabilities in femtosecond supercontinuum generation. We study both the onset phase of supercontinuum ge…
Modeling of octave-spanning Kerr frequency combs using a generalized mean-field Lugiato-Lefever model
Stephane Coen, Hamish G. Randle, Thibaut Sylvestre +1
A generalized Lugiato-Lefever equation is numerically solved with a Newton-Raphson method to model Kerr frequency combs. We obtain excellent agreement with past experiments, even f…
Real-time full bandwidth measurement of spectral noise in supercontinuum generation
B. Wetzel, A. Stefani, L. Larger +8
The ability to measure real-time fluctuations of ultrashort pulses propagating in optical fiber has provided significant insights into fundamental dynamical effects such as modulat…
Zero-dispersion Wavelength Mapping in Short Single-Mode Optical Fibers Using Parametric Amplification
A. Mussot, E. Lantz, A. Durécu-Legrand +4
We demonstrate a novel convenient nondestructive method based on optical parametric amplification that allows retrieval of the zero-dispersion wavelength map along a short optical…
Quantum fluctuations and correlations of spatial scalar or multimode vector solitons in Kerr media
Eric Lantz, Thibaut Sylvestre, Herve Maillote +2
We apply the Green's function method to determine the global degree of squeezing and the transverse spatial distribution of quantum fluctuations of solitons in Kerr media. We show…