Two-Octave Supercontinuum Generation of High-Order OAM Modes in Air-Core As₂S₃ Ring Fiber

Abstract

In this work, we design and simulate an air-core As <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> S <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> ring fiber for high-order orbital angular momentum (OAM) supercontinuum generation. We show that the chromatic dispersion of the ring fiber can be substantially tailored by proper optimization of the air-core radius. Two-octave supercontinuum carrying OAM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">17,1</sub> mode, spanning from 1560 to 6250 nm, is obtained by pumping a 50-fs 100-kW secant hyperbolic pulse centered at the wavelength of 3800 nm into the designed fiber with 50-μm air-core radius and 1-μm ring width. We further engineer the chromatic dispersion of some other OAM modes and perform simulations of supercontinuum spectra using different kilowatt-level peak power, which indicates that the fiber we design represents a promising avenue for supercontinuum generation of all the OAM <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">l,1</sub> modes (|l| ≤17). The proposed fiber is suitable for the transmission of OAM beams in infrared wavelength range and it could promote the development and application of high-order OAM beams.