Supercontinuum Generation

The key technology enabling applications such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) and multi-species gas spectroscopy is supercontinuum generation. The concept of supercontinuum generation is illustrated below. It involves the interaction of an intense laser pulse with a nonlinear medium, such as an optical fiber, resulting in the generation of new colors/wavelengths.

Below is a list of publications within...

Optical Coherence Tomography

2024

• C. Lapre, D. Brouczek, M. Schwentenwein, K. Neumann, N. Benson, C.R. Petersen, O. Bang, N.M. Israelsen, "Rapid non-destructive inspection of sub-surface defects in 3D printed alumina through 30 layers with 7 μm depth resolution", Open Ceramics 18, 100611 (2024).

2023

• C. R. Petersen, S. Fæster, J. I. Bech, K. M. Jespersen, N. M. Israelsen, O. Bang, ” Non-destructive and contactless defect detection inside leading edge coatings for wind turbine blades using mid-infrared optical coherence tomography”, Wind Energy, we.2810 (2023).

2022

• R. E. Hansen, T. Bæk, S. L. Lange, N. M. Israelsen, M. Mäntylä, O. Bang, C. R. Petersen, “Non-Contact Paper Thickness and Quality Monitoring Based on Mid-Infrared Optical Coherence Tomography and THz Time Domain Spectroscopy”, Sensors 22, 1549 (2022).

2021

• C. R. Petersen, N. Rajagopalan, C. Markos, N. M. Israelsen, P. J. Rodrigo, G. Woyessa, P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, C. Pedersen, C. E. Weinell, S. Kiil, and O. Bang, "Non-Destructive Subsurface Inspection of Marine and Protective Coatings Using Near- and Mid-Infrared Optical Coherence Tomography," Coatings 11(8), 877 (2021).
• N. M. Israelsen, P. J. Rodrigo, C. R. Petersen, G. Woyessa, R. E. Hansen, P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, C. Pedersen, and O. Bang, "High-resolution mid-infrared optical coherence tomography with kHz line rate," Opt. Lett. 46(18), 4558–4561 (2021).

2019

• N. M. Israelsen , C. R. Petersen, A. Barh , D. Jain , M. Jensen, G. Hannesschläger, P. Tidemand‐Lichtenberg, C. Pedersen, A. Podoleanu, and O. Bang, "Real‐time High‐Resolution Mid‐infrared Optical Coherence Tomography", Light: Science & Applications 8, article number: 11 (2019).

2018

• M. Jensen, N. M. Israelsen, M. Maria, T. Feuchter, A. Podoleanu, O. Bang, "All-depth dispersion cancellation in spectral domain optical coherence tomography using numerical intensity correlations", Scientific Reports 8, 9170 (2018).
• A. Podoleanu, O. Bang, S. Bojesen, M. Bondu, A. Bradu, S. Caujolle, C. Chin, M. Denninger, T. Feuchter, F. Fleischhauer, M. Hædersdal, N. M. Israelsen, M. Jensen, I. B. Gonzalo, M. Maria, M. Marques, L. Leick, M. Mogensen, and P. M. Moselund, "Supercontinuum applications in high resolution non invasive optical imaging," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics , paper AW3S.1 (2018).
• N. M. Israelsen, M. Maria, M. Mogensen, S. Bojesen, M. Jensen, M. Hædersdal, A. Podoleanu, O. Bang, "The value of ultrahigh resolution OCT in dermatology - delineating the dermo-epidermal junction, capillaries in the dermal papillae and vellus hairs," Biomed. Opt. Express 9, 2240-2265 (2018).
• M. Mogensen, S. Bojesen, N. M. Israelsen, et al., "Two optical coherence tomography systems detect topical gold nanoshells in hair follicles, sweat ducts and measure epidermis", J. Biophotonics, e201700348 (2018).

Spectroscopy and Imaging

2024

• Sonoiki DS, Kwarkye K, Sørensen KM, Engelsen SB, Bang O, Petersen CR. "Single-Path Supercontinuum Near- to  Mid-Infrared Correlation Spectroscopy  of Aqueous Samples", Applied Spectroscopy (2024).

2022

• R. Krebbers, N. Liu, K. E. Jahromi, M. Nematollahi, O. Bang, G. Woyessa, C. R. Petersen, G. Van Rooij, F. J. M. Harren, A. Khodabakhsh, S. M. Cristescu, “Mid-infrared Supercontinuum-based Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for plasma analysis”, Sci. Rep (Accepted 27-05-2022)

2021

• Bruce Napier, Ole Bang, Christos Markos, Peter Moselund, Laurent Huot, Frans J M Harren, Amir Khodabakhsh, Hans Martin, Floria Ottonello Briano, Laurent Balet, Steve Lecomte, Christian R Petersen, Niels Israelsen, David Bastviken, Magnus Gålfalk, Łukasz Kubiszyn9 and Piotr Warzybok, "Ultra-broadband infrared gas sensor for pollution detection: the TRIAGE project", Journal of Physics: Photonics 3, 031003 (2021).

2020

• Manoj K. Dasa, Gianni Nteroli, Patrick Bowen, Giulia Messa, Yuyang Feng, Christian R. Petersen, Stella Koutsikou, Magalie Bondu, Peter M. Moselund, Adrian Podoleanu, Adrian Bradu, Christos Markos, Ole Bang, "All-fibre supercontinuum laser for in vivo multispectral photoacoustic microscopy of lipids in the extended near-infrared region", Photoacoustics 18, 100163 (2020).

2018

• K. Dasa, C. Markos, M. Maria, C. R. Petersen, P. M. Moselund, O. Bang, ”High-pulse energy supercontinuum laser for high-resolution spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging of lipids in the 1650-1850 nm region”, Biomed. Opt. Express 9, 1762-1770 (2018).
• C. R. Petersen, P. M. Moselund, L. Huot, L. Hooper, O. Bang, "Towards a table-top synchrotron based on supercontinuum generation", Infrared Physics & Technology 91, 182-186 (2018).
• C. R. Petersen, N. Prtljaga, M. Farries, J. Ward, B. Napier, G. R. Lloyd, J. Nallala, N.Stone, and O.Bang, "Mid-infrared multispectral tissue imaging using a chalcogenide fiber supercontinuum source," Opt. Lett. 43, 999-1002 (2018).

Supercontinuum Generation

2024

• C. R. Smith, D. H. Yeh, P. B. Montague, C. R. Petersen, and O. Bang, "Repetition rate optimized 2 µm gain-switched diode pumped MIR supercontinuum," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41, 2266-2271 (2024)

2023

• R. E. Hansen, C. R. Smith, A. Moltke, C. R. Petersen, S. Raghuraman, S. Yoo, and O. Bang, "Mid-IR Supercontinuum Noise Reduction Using a Short Piece of Normal Dispersion Fiber - A General Mechanism", Laser & Photonics Reviews 17, 2200776 (2023). 

2022

• C. R. Petersen and O. Bang, “Mid-Infrared Fiber Photonics – chapter 12: Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation”, Elsevier / Woodhead Publishing, 1^st Ed., 685-741 (2022)

2021

• R. E. Hansen, R. D. Engelsholm, C. R. Petersen, and O. Bang, "Numerical observation of SPM rogue waves in normal dispersion cascaded supercontinuum generation," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 38, 2754-2764 (2021).
• Woyessa, K. Kwarkye, M. K. Dasa, C. R. Petersen, R. Sidharthan, S. Chen, S. Yoo, and O. Bang, "Power stable 1.5–10.5 µm cascaded mid-infrared supercontinuum laser without thulium amplifier," Opt. Lett. 46(5), 1129–1132 (2021).

2020

• Kyei Kwarkye, Mikkel Jensen, Manoj K. Dasa, Getinet Woyessa, Deepak Jain, Patrick Bowen, Peter M. Moselund, Raghuraman Sidharthan, Shaoxiang Chen, Seongwoo Yoo, Christian R. Petersen, and Ole Bang, "Influence of pulse duration and repetition rate on mid-infrared cascaded supercontinuum," Opt. Lett. 45, 5161-5164 (2020).
• Kwarkye, K., Jensen, M., Engelsholm, R.D. et al. "In-amplifier and cascaded mid-infrared supercontinuum sources with low noise through gain-induced soliton spectral alignment". Sci Rep 10, 8230 (2020). 

2019

• Christian R. Petersen, Mikkel B. Lotz, Getinet Woyessa, Amar N. Ghosh, Thibaut Sylvestre, Laurent Brilland, Johann Troles, Mogens H. Jakobsen, Rafael Taboryski, and Ole Bang, "Nanoimprinting and tapering of chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers for cascaded supercontinuum generation," Opt. Lett. 44, 5505-5508 (2019)

2018

• A. I. Adamu, Md. S. Habib, C. R. Petersen, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schülzgen, R. Amezcua-Correa, O. Bang, C. Markos, "Deep-UV to mid-IR supercontinuum generation driven by mid-IR ultrashort pulses in a gas-filled fiber", arXiv:1805.03118.
• C. R. Petersen, P. M. Moselund, L. Huot, L. Hooper, O. Bang, "Towards a table-top synchrotron based on supercontinuum generation", Infrared Physics & Technology 91, 182-186 (2018).

2017

• C. R. Petersen, R. D. Engelsholm, C. Markos, L. Brilland, C. Caillaud, J. Trolès, “Increased mid-infrared supercontinuum bandwidth and average power by tapering large-mode-area chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers”, Optics Express 25, 15336-15348 (2017).

2016

• C. R. Petersen, P. M. Moselund, C. Petersen, U. Møller, and O. Bang, "Spectral-temporal composition matters when cascading supercontinua into the mid-infrared", Opt. Express 24, 749-758. (2016).
• D. Jain, R. Sidharthan, P. M. Moselund, S. Yoo, D. Ho, and O. Bang, "Record power, ultra-broadband supercontinuum source based on highly GeO₂doped silica fiber", Opt. Express 24, 26667-26677 (2016).