Broadband supercontinuum generation with photonic crystal fibers made of soft glass Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper we report on the fabrication of a micro-structured fiber made of in-house synthesized silicate glass, with a nonlinear Kerr refractive index of 4.0 10(-15) cm(2)/W. The micro-structured fiber uses three rings of holes around a slightly elliptical core with dimensions 2.6 mu m x 3.4 mu m. This fiber has a birefringence of about 10(-3) at 1.5 mu m and zero dispersion wavelengths at 860 nm and 870 nm. Using this fiber we have ...