Numerical Investigation of Supercontinuum Generation Through AsSe2/As2S5 Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibres and Rib Structures

• Published in: Journal of lightwave technology 2019-11, Vol.37 (22), p.5692-5698
• Main Authors: Diouf, Mbaye, Mandeng, Lucien Mandeng, Tchawoua, Clement, Zghal, Mourad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Broadband; Chalcogenide glasses; Chalcogenides; Cladding; Crystal fibers; Crystal structure; Dispersion; Glass; mid-Infrared region; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Ribs; Ribs (structural); supercontinuum generation
• ISSN: 0733-8724; 1558-2213
• DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2934034

We compare numerically the supercontinuum generation (SCG) phenomenon in the Mid-Infrared (MIR) region through AsSe 2 /As 2 S 5 chalcogenide based optical waveguides namely photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and rib-like structures. The same material combination is used in the two configurations for MIRSCG. Specifically, the studied PCF is composed of a core made of AsSe 2 glass and a surrounding cladding made of As 2 S 5 glass while the AsSe 2 /As 2 S 5 chalcogenide rib waveguide (AsSe 2 /As 2 S 5 ChRW) is filled in its upper cladding by air while the lower one is constituted by the As 2 S 5 glass. The comparison is conducted in the anomalous dispersion regime on a very short 1 mm-length of propagation for a 50 fs sechtype pulse in the HE 11 mode at 4 μm wavelength for each waveguide. Despite the ultra-broadband and coherent MIR-SCG spectrum of 18.75 μm in bandwidth obtained with the considered AsSe 2 /As 2 S 5 -PCF, we found that an AsSe 2 /As 2 S 5 -ChRW that has a height H = 1.98 μm and a width W = 5 μm allows a SCG spanning approximately from 1 beyond 20 μm with a very low energy as 0.4 nJ.