zhu Li

Design, fabrication and characterization of PC, COP and PMMA-cladded As 2 Se 3 microwires

We introduce the PC- and COP-cladded As2Se3 microwires, two highly nonlinear microwires optimized to operate in the wavelength range of 1.85 µm to 2.20 µm. Like the previously reported PMMA-cladded As2Se3 microwire, the PC- and COP-cladded microwires benefit of a large waveguide nonlinear parameter and engineerable chromatic dispersion level, but without the absorption features of PMMA in the 1.85 μm to 2.20 μm range. The design rules and fabrication technique of each polymer-cladded microwire is provided. COP- and PMMA-cladded microwires with identical length and waveguide nonlinearity parameter are also operated in the nonlinear regime, highlighting features of self-phase modulation, four-wave mixing and Raman scattering in the 1.85 μm to 2.20 μm range.

Chalcogenide-based optical parametric oscillator at 2 μm

We report the first chalcogenide-based optical parametric oscillator (OPO) relying on pure parametric gain. The all-fiber OPO operates in the wavelength range of 2 μm and is tunable over 290 nm from the combined Stokes and anti-Stokes contributions. The gain medium is a 10 cm long chalcogenide microwire made from a high modal confinement As2Se3 core with cyclo olefin polymer cladding, leading to optimized chromatic dispersion, high nonlinearity, and broadband transparency. With a power threshold of only a fraction of a milliwatt, this design is promising for the fabrication of tunable, compact, and low-power consumption mid-infrared sources.

Chalcogenide optical microwires cladded with fluorine-based CYTOP.

We demonstrate optical transmission results of highly nonlinear As2Se3 optical microwires cladded with fluorine-based CYTOP, and compare them with microwires cladded with typical hydrogen-based polymers. In the linear optics regime, the CYTOP-cladded microwire transmits light in the spectral range from 1.3 µm up to >2.5 µm without trace of absorption peaks such as those observed using hydrogen-based polymer claddings. The microwire is also pumped in the nonlinear optics regime, showing multiple-orders of four-wave mixing and supercontinuum generation spanning from 1.0 µm to >4.3 µm. We conclude that with such a broadband transparency and high nonlinearity, the As2Se3-CYTOP microwire is an appealing solution for nonlinear optical processing in the mid-infrared.

Power-efficient production of photon pairs in a tapered chalcogenide microwire

Using tapered fibers of As2Se3 chalcogenide glass, we produce photon pairs at telecommunication wavelengths with low pump powers. We found maximum coincidences-to-accidentals ratios of

Mid-infrared wavelength conversion from As 2 Se 3 microwires

2.13\pm0.07

2 μm Raman fiber laser based on a multimaterial chalcogenide microwire

for degenerate pumping with 3.2 {\mu}W average power, and

Mapping the Uniformity of Optical Microwires Using Phase-Correlation Brillouin Distributed Measurements

1.33\pm0.03

Broadband supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion chalcogenide microwires

for non-degenerate pumping with 1.0 {\mu}W and 1.5 {\mu}W average power of the two pumps. Our results show that the ultrahigh nonlinearity in these microwires could allow single-photon pumping to produce photon pairs, enabling the production of large entangled states, heralding of single photons after lossy transmission, and photonic quantum information processing with nonlinear optics.

Design, fabrication and characterization of polymer-coated As 2 Se 3 microwires

We demonstrate all-fiber far-detuned and widely tunable mid-infrared wavelength conversion using As2Se3 microwires. In a first experiment, an idler is generated and tuned from 2.351 to >2.500 μm from four-wave mixing in a 0.5 cm long microwire. In a second experiment, tunable parametric sidebands are generated via modulation instability in a 10 cm long microwire. The resulting parametric frequency conversion reaches up to 49.3 THz, the largest ever reported in soft glass materials.

Mid-infrared Raman fiber laser in chalcogenide microwire

We report a Raman fiber laser based on a multimaterial chalcogenide microwire. The microwire structure comprises a core of As38Se62, a cladding of As38S62, and a coating of poly-methyl methacrylate. The microwire is a robust, high confinement waveguide compatible with the mid-infrared. With the microwire inserted in a ring cavity, Raman laser oscillation at a wavelength of 2.025 μm occurs from synchronous pumping at a wavelength of 1.938 μm. The input peak power required to reach threshold is 4.6 W and the power slope efficiency is 4.5%. Numerical simulations are in good agreement with experimental results and predict chirp-free femtosecond pulses.