Infrared (IR) fibers offer a versatile approach to guiding and manipulating light in the IR
spectrum, which is becoming increasingly more prominent in a variety of scientific …

The field of hybrid optical fibers is one of the most active research areas in current fiber
optics and has the vision of integrating sophisticated materials inside fibers, which are not …

Nonlinear optical fibres have been employed for a vast number of applications, including
optical frequency conversion, ultrafast laser and optical communication,,–. In current …

In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

Chalcogenide glasses have the advantages of a wide transparency window (over 20 μm)
and high optical nonlinearity (up to a thousand times greater than that of silica glasses) …

Recent progress in combining multiple materials with disparate optical, electronic, and
thermomechanical properties monolithically in the same fiber drawn from a preform is …

We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of octave-spanning
supercontinuum generation (SCG) on a silicon chip, spanning from the telecommunications …

We numerically investigate mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC) generation in dispersion-
engineered, air-clad, Ge_11. 5As_24Se_64. 5 chalcogenide-glass channel waveguides …

In this work, we report the experimental observation of supercontinua generation in two
kinds of suspended-core microstructured soft-glass optical fibers. Low loss, highly nonlinear …

Efficient generation of a broad-band mid-infrared supercontinuum spectrum is reported in an
arsenic trisulphide waveguide embedded in silica. A chalcogenide “nano-spike”, designed …