Abstract

Supercontinuum (SC) generation is a very attractive way to generate broad spectra for applications ranging from optical communications to medical diagnosis and to spectroscopy. In particular spectrum-sliced SC sources at 1.5 µm are of potential interest for dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing systems (DWDM) and networks [1]. In this technique an ultrashort pulse seed generates broad coherent spectra by non-linear effect in an optical fibre. In this paper we report on experimental and theoretical investigation on amplitude stability of SC spectra. We also present and discuss an amplitude stable 40 ch x 10 Gb/s spectrum-sliced SC source for DWDM applications.

© 2000 IEEE