New Supercontinuum Generation Sources Put Handheld Devices Within Reach
A figure-of-nine femtosecond fiber laser seeds a novel dispersion patterned chip to enable compact, low-power supercontinuum generation. The new technology could support more portable supercontinuum sources for sensing, ranging, and imaging applications. Supercontinuum generation (SCG) converts laser light, typically from a pulsed laser, into coherent light that is characterized by a superwide continuous optical spectrum (Figure 1). The huge spectral bandwidths that these sources enable
Photonics Spectra, November 2023