Thibaut Sylvestre

Generation of a broadband single-mode supercontinuum in a conventional dispersion-shifted fiber by use of a subnanosecond microchip laser

We report the experimental generation, simply by use of a subnanosecond microchip laser at 532 nm and a conventional dispersion-shifted fiber, of a supercontinuum that spans more than 1100 nm. We show by detailed spectral analysis that this supercontinuum originates from a preliminary four-wave mixing process with multimode phase matching and subsequent double-cascade stimulated Raman scattering and is transversely single mode as a result of Raman-induced mode competition. This technique is believed to be the simplest configuration that allows one to generate a stable supercontinuum.

Broadband and flat parametric amplifiers with a multisection dispersion-tailored nonlinear fiber arrangement

We describe a simple scheme to allow for the achievement of flat gain over ultrabroad bands with a single-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifier operating in the zero-dispersion wavelength region. The proposed method, based on a multisection dispersion-tailored in-line nonlinear fiber arrangement, is demonstrated by both modulational instability theory and numerical simulations of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The results show that the design can be adjusted to generate gain bands that exceed either 100 nm with a ripple of less than 0.2 dB and for a pump power of only 500 mW, or even 200 nm when a pump power of 5 W is used. In addition, the robustness of this gain-flattening technique has been numerically checked against random fluctuations of the zero-dispersion wavelength in each of the fiber sections.

Cascaded Brillouin lasing in monolithic barium fluoride whispering gallery mode resonators

We report the observation of stimulated Brillouin scattering and lasing at 1550~nm in barium fluoride (BaF

Cascaded Raman generation in optical fibers: influence of chromatic dispersion and Rayleigh backscattering.

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Generation of vector dark-soliton trains by induced modulational instability in a highly birefringent fiber

) crystal. Brillouin lasing was achieved with ultra-high quality (

Broadband and nearly flat parametric gain in single-mode fibers

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Far-detuned cascaded intermodal four-wave mixing in a multimode fiber

) factor monolithic whispering gallery mode (WGM) mm-size disk resonators. Overmoded resonators were specifically used to provide cavity resonances for both the pump and all Brillouin Stokes waves. Single and multiple Brillouin Stokes radiations with frequency shift ranging from

Demonstration of stimulated-Raman-scattering suppression in optical fibers in a multifrequency pumping configuration

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Brillouin spectroscopy of optical microfibers and nanofibers

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Surface Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibers

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