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Optics Letters

Chalcogenide fibers for Kerr squeezing

Elena A. Anashkina, Alexey V. Andrianov, Joel Frederick Corney, Gerd Leuchs

Published Aug 20, 2020• 19 citations
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Abstract

We propose and investigate theoretically the Kerr squeezing of light at a wavelength of 2 µm in chalcogenide fibers with large nonlinearity and—this is the advance—with much reduced attenuation. We present suitably realistic but straightforward designs of low-loss step-index single-mode fibers with the nonlinear Kerr coefficient 3 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than for standard telecommunication fibers, and we give estimations of optimal squeezing for continuous wave laser signal in the considered fibers based on A s 2 S 3 or A s 2 S e 3 glasses.

DOI
10.1364/ol.400326

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