Dual Concentric-Ring-Core Fiber With Four Zero-Dispersion Wavelengths for Beyond Three-Octave OAM Supercontinuum Generation

Abstract

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, featuring with unique spatial field distributions, have been extensively investigated and applied into a wide range of fields. In most applications, OAM beams covering a certain frequency band are usually required, and supercontinuum (SC) generation is a feasible method to provide broadband OAM source. As a short pulse is incident into a specially designed optical fiber with flat dispersion over broad bandwidth, a broadband SC could be generated along propagation due to the nonlinear spectral broadening. In this work, we propose a dual concentric-ring-core fiber design to achieve near-zero and flat dispersion profile over 3007-nm wavelength range with four zero-dispersion wavelengths for the OAM mode. The precise position of the zero-dispersion wavelengths can be tailored by varying the structural variables and the germanium-doped concentration of the silica-based fiber. The performance of the spectral broadening in terms of flatness and bandwidth is investigated under different input pulse and propagation conditions. Simulation results depict that the OAM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3,1</sub> mode supercontinuum spectrum can achieve beyond three-octave spanning from 445 to 3942 nm at −40 dB level by pumping a 50-fs 600-kW Gaussian pulse at the central wavelength of 1900 nm into a 2-mm designed fiber. By further optimizing the proposed fiber structure for the OAM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1,1</sub> mode with <60 ps/(nm·km) dispersion variation over a 3210-nm bandwidth, the generated supercontinuum can cover nearly three octaves.