Numerical analysis of supercontinuum generation in photonic-crystal fibers with zero dispersion wavelengths in telecommunication windows

Abstract

We used a Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta in the Interaction Picture Method for simulating supercontinuum generation (SCG) in a designed solid-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with zero dispersion wavelength (ZDW) at 800nm and other solid-core PCF with ultra-flattened dispersion in the range of 1300nm to 1550nm obtaining a SCG with a bandwidth of 850, 1200, and 2300nm using a femtosecond laser in the three communication windows. Here we achieved ZDW close to the first, second and third communication windows which gives us the possibility to obtain a wide spectrum at these points with good quality in the 40-dB bandwidth for SCG with flat spectrum. The design of the two PCFs proposed here is analyzed numerically using finite element method (FEM) and we showed the results when we used a pump wavelength in normal and anomalous dispersion regimes close to ZDW points of these two PCFs for SCG.