Article Dans Une Revue Photonics research Année : 2025

Towards high-power and ultra-broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation using tapered multimode glass rods

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Simultaneously increasing the spectral bandwidth and average output power of mid-infrared supercontinuum sources remains a major challenge for their practical application. We particularly address this issue for the long mid-infrared spectral region through experimental developments of short tapered rods made from selenide glass by means of supercontinuum generation in the femtosecond regime. Our simple post-processing of glass rods unlocks potentially higher-power and coherent fiber-based supercontinuum sources beyond the 10-μm waveband. By using a 5-cm-long tapered Ge-Se-Te rod pumped at 6 μm, a supercontinuum spanning from 2 to 15 μm (3–14 μm) with an average output power of 93 mW (170 mW) is obtained for 500-kHz (1-MHz) repetition rate. Additional experiments on other glass families (silica and tellurite) covering distinct spectral regions are also reported to develop and support our analyses. We demonstrate that ultra-broadband spectral broadenings over entire glass transmission windows can be achieved in few-cm-long segments of tapered rods by a fine adjustment of input modal excitation. Numerical simulations are used to confirm the main contribution of the fundamental mode in the ultrafast nonlinear dynamics, as well as the possible preservation of coherence features. Our study opens a new route, to our knowledge, towards the power scaling of high-repetition-rate fiber supercontinuum sources over the full molecular fingerprint region.

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hal-05172392 , version 1 (21-07-2025)

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Esteban Serrano, Damien Bailleul, Frédéric Désévédavy, Pierre Béjot, Grégory Gadret, et al.. Towards high-power and ultra-broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation using tapered multimode glass rods. Photonics research, 2025, 13 (5), pp.1106. ⟨10.1364/PRJ.541738⟩. ⟨hal-05172392⟩
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