Supercontinuum Generation in Nonlinear Microstructured Fiber and Recent Advances

Supercontinuum (SC) is generated experimentally in nonlinear microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) which are designed and fabricated by stack and draw process. Effects of different drawing parameters on the MOF structures are studied and high air filling fraction is achieved by optimizing the drawing parameters. Different aspects of SC generation process is theoretically modeled and compared with the experimentally generated SC spectrum. Certain interesting physical processes that occur during SC generation are explained in detail. Index Terms dispersive wave, four wave mixing, microstructured optical fiber, optical soliton, supercontinuum generation.