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Design and fabrication of nonlinear optical waveguides for far-detuned wavelength conversion to the mid-infrared

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Abstract

Highly nonlinear gain media that are optically pumped by rare-earth doped sources have become a promising approach for the fabrication of all-fiber mid-infrared laser sources. This article focuses on the recent progresses of highly nonlinear chalcogenide microwires as practical gain media for far-detuned wavelength conversion towards the mid-infrared.

  1. Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Funder Id: 10.13039/501100000038, Grant Number: Discovery grants.

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Received: 2018-04-26
Accepted: 2018-07-18
Published Online: 2018-08-11
Published in Print: 2018-10-25

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