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We report that trefoil and quatrefoil silica channels with sizes ranging from 0.6 μm to as large as 4–5 μm in a holey fiber can strongly confine the light field and act as highly nonlinear waveguides. Supercontinuum emissions, efficient dispersive-wave generation and parametric four-wave-mixing processes were achieved in these channels with sub-nanojoule femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulses. Two dispersion curves corresponding to two orthogonal modes in each channel were simulated and used to explain the experimental results.
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Ji, L., Lu, P., Dai, N. et al. Multiplex frequency conversion of femtosecond laser pulses in trefoil and quatrefoil channels of a holey fiber. Appl. Phys. B 91, 295–298 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-008-2979-5
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