Generation of high-brightness spectrally flat supercontinuum in 1900-2450 nm range inside a small core thulium-doped fiber amplifier

Xing, SidaKharitonov, SvyatoslavNorth, ThibaultGrassani, DavideBrès, Camille-Sophie2017-08-312017-08-312017-08-31201610.1364/ASSL.2016.AM5A.8https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/139918We demonstrate the generation of high-brightness supercontinuum inside thuliumdoped fiber amplifier in 1950-2450nm spectral range with 1.7W output power and 32% slope efficiency, seeded by tunable 2000nm mode-locked laser and assisted by 3H4-3H5/3F4-3H6 thulium transitions.Generation of high-brightness spectrally flat supercontinuum in 1900-2450 nm range inside a small core thulium-doped fiber amplifiertext::conference output::conference paper not in proceedings