Optical Supercontinuum from a Feedback System

光学超连续谱有很多用途。目前，它通常是通过将短光脉冲通过一段有孔光纤来产生的。这一建议建议使用反馈结构，即光纤谐振器，以增强效果并利用光学自组织作为一种手段来提供额外的优化自由度，并降低功率需求。一个原则性验证实验成功地证明了该方法的优点。现在需要系统的实验和数值研究来优化工作条件，提高对参数相关性的理解，并改善频谱。

Optical supercontinuum has many uses. Currently it is typically produced by passing short light pulses through a piece of holey fiber. This proposal suggests to use a feedback arrangement, i.e. a fiber resonator, to enhance the effect and exploit optical self-organization as a means to provide additional optimization degrees of freedom, and to reduce power requirements. A proof-of-principle experiment has successfully demonstrated the merit of this approach. Now systematic experiments and numerical studies are required to optimize working conditions, to advance understanding of parameter dependencies, and to improve the spectrum.