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Highly birefringent silicate glass photonic-crystal fiber with polarization-controlled frequency-shifted output: A promising fiber light source for nonlinear Raman microspectroscopy

Mitrofanov A.V., Linik Y.M., Buczynski R., Pysz D., Lorenc D., Bugar I., Ivanov A.A., Alfimov M.V., Fedotov A.B., and Zheltikov A.M.

Optics Express

14(22), 2006, 10645-10651, 10.1364/OE.14.010645

A highly birefringent silicate glass photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) is employed for polarization-controlled nonlinear-optical frequency conversion of femtosecond Cr: forsterite laser pulses with a central wavelength of 1.24 μm to the 530╍720-nm wavelength range through soliton dispersion-wave emission. The fiber exhibits a modal birefringence of 1.2·10-3 at the wavelength of 1.24 μm due to a strong form anisotropy of its core, allowing polarization switching of the central wavelength of its blue-shifted output by 75 nm. Polarization properties and the beam quality of the blue-shifted PCF output are shown to be ideally suited for polarization-sensitive nonlinear Raman microspectroscopy.


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