Widely tunable second-harmonic generation in a chalcogenide-tellurite hybrid optical fiber.

When a chalcogenide-tellurite hybrid optical fiber with a high refractive index difference Δn=0.24 is pumped by an optical parametric oscillator with a pump wavelength from 1700 to 3000 nm, widely tunable second-harmonic generation (SHG) from 850 to 1502 nm is obtained. The observation of SHG is primarily due to the surface nonlinearity polarization at the core-cladding interface and the second-harmonic signal remains stable at the maximal level throughout the laser pulse irradiation.

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a suspended-core As2S3 chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber.

We demonstrate the supercontinuum (SC) generation in a suspended-core As(2)S(3) chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber (MOF). The variation of SC is investigated by changing the fiber length, pump peak power and pump wavelength. In the case of long fibers (20 and 40 cm), the SC ranges are discontinuous and stop at the wavelengths shorter than 3500 nm, due to the absorption of fiber.