Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Broadband light source device and method of creating broadband light pulses
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Application No.: US16471035Application Date: 2017-01-09
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Publication No.: US10693271B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Patrick Sebastian Uebel , Philip St. J. Russell , Sebastian Thomas Bauerschmidt
- Applicant: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften E.V.
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: Max-Plank-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
- Current Assignee: Max-Plank-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/000023 WO 20170109
- International Announcement: WO2018/127266 WO 20180712
- Main IPC: H01S3/00
- IPC: H01S3/00 ; G02F1/35 ; G02F1/355 ; G02F1/365

Abstract:
A broadband light source device (100) for creating broadband light pulses (1) comprises a hollow-core fiber (10) of non-bandgap type including a filling gas and being arranged for creating the broadband light pulses (1) by an optical nonlinear broadening of pump laser pulses (2), wherein the hollow-core fiber (10) has an axial hollow light guiding fiber core (11), which supports core modes of a guided light field, and an inner fiber structure (12), which surrounds the fiber core (11) and which supports transverse wall modes of the guided light field, and a pump laser source device (20) being arranged for creating and providing the pump laser pulses (2) at an input side (13) of the hollow-core fiber (10), wherein the transverse wall modes include a fundamental transverse wall mode and second and higher order transverse wall modes, the broadband light pulses (1) have a core mode spectrum being determined by a fiber length, a fiber core diameter, at least one pump pulse and/or beam parameter of the pump laser pulses (2) and at least one gas parameter of the filling gas, and the inner fiber structure (12) of the hollow-core fiber (10) is configured such that at least the second and higher order transverse wall modes and the core mode spectrum have a spectral displacement relative to each other. Furthermore, a method of creating broadband light pulses is described.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190319420A1 Broadband Light Source Device and Method of Creating Broadband Light Pulses Public/Granted day:2019-10-17
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