Impact of chirp on soliton trapping of dispersive waves in photonic crystal fiber with two zero dispersive wavelengths

Abstract

We present a numerical study of soliton trapping of dispersive waves with the effect of chirp during supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers (PCF) pumped with femtosecond pulses in the anomalous dispersion region. For different propagation length along the PCF, we can see that the evolution of pulse can be divided into three stages: initial broadening stage, dramatic broadening stage and saturation broadening stage. We find a fascinating phenomenon that the intensity of blue-shifted dispersive waves (B-DWs) and red-shifted dispersive waves (R-DWs) will be enhanced with positive chirped. It reveals that the coupling between the Raman soliton and the DW under suitable chirp conditions may be a key mechanism in controlling the spectral broadening and soliton trapping of DW. Numerical study shows that initial chirp dramatically influences both the DW generation, spectral recoil and soliton trapping of DW. In order to clearly display the evolution of soliton trapping of DW by chirped pulses, we observed the spectrogram of output pulses using cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating technique (XFROG).