Generation of supercontinuum bottle beam using an axicon
Author(s) -
JaHon Lin,
Ming-Dar Wei,
Hui-Hung Liang,
Kuei-Huei Lin,
Wen-Feng Hsieh
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.15.002940
Subject(s) - supercontinuum , axicon , optics , materials science , femtosecond , laser , lens (geology) , beam (structure) , bottle , wavelength , optoelectronics , physics , laser beams , photonic crystal fiber , composite material
A supercontinuum bottle beam was successfully produced by focusing a supercontinuum laser beam after passing through an axicon. The supercontinuum radiation was generated from a microstructured fiber pumped by a self-kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. The cross-section intensity distributions of the generated bottle were recorded by a beam profiler. Using the line filters to select different central wavelengths, the different colors of bottle beams show slightly different bottle ranges and diameters due to the dispersion of axicon and focusing lens. The results consist with the theoretical prediction using the Fresnel-Kirchhoff's formula in considering an incident Gaussian beam.
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