High power highly nonlinear holey fiber with low confinement loss for supercontinuum light sources

The high power holey fiber is an efficient supercontinuum light source by using picosecond pulse, which is a less expensive laser source compared with low power and expensive femtosecond laser sources. In this paper, a high power highly nonlinear holey fiber (HN-HF) with a low confinement loss is proposed for supercontinuum light sources. The finite difference method is used to calculate the different properties of the proposed HN-HF. High nonlinear coefficients are obtained at 1.06 μm, 1.31 μm, and 1.55 μm wavelengths with flattened chromatic dispersion and low confinement losses simultaneously. Moreover, numerical simulation results show that high power broad supercontinuum spectra with very short length of the proposed photonic crystal fiber are achieved. © 2018, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.