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• TITLE: Design of supercontinuum generating photonic crystal fiber at 1.06, 1.31 and 1.55 µm wavelengths for medical imaging and optical transmission systems

  AUTHORS: Feroza Begum, Yoshinori Namihira

  KEYWORDS: Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs); Finite Difference Method; Chromatic Dispersion; Supercontinuum Spectrum; Optical Coherence Tomography

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Science, Vol.3 No.5, May 17, 2011

  ABSTRACT: We propose broad supercontinuum spectrum generating highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (HN-PCF) which can be used in ultrahigh- resolution optical coherence tomography and optical transmission systems. Using full vector finite difference method, we investigated the different properties of HN-PCF. Broadband su-percontinuum spectrum is numerically calculated by using nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. Investigation showed that it is possible to obtain longitudinal resolution in a biological tissue of 1.3 μm, 1.2 μm and 1.1 μm by using picosecond continuum light at center wavelengths of 1.06 μm, 1.31 μm and 1.55 μm, respectively.