White light pulse generating method using nonlinear optical device
US7286738B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 25, 2005 |
| Grant date | Oct 23, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 25, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/122
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A nonlinear-optic waveguide device has a thin-wire optical waveguide including a core having a cross-sectional area of at most 1 μm2 and a cladding, the core and the cladding having a refractive index difference of at least 1. A light pulse introduced into the core has a peak power of at least several hundreds W and a pulse duration of at most 10 ps. The thin-wire optical waveguide has a length of about 1 cm. The nonlinear optical device, a mode-locked semiconductor laser, and tunable optical filter are combined into a white pulse light source.
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