Supercontinuum generation, which refers to laser light conversion over a very broad spectral range, has been revolutionized during the last decade thanks to the advent of photonic crystal optical fibers. Indisputably, these fibers have proven to be attractive media for both handling the nonlinearity and controlling the dispersion, thus enabling the design of spatially coherent white-light sources emitting in the ultraviolet, visible, near and mid-infrared spectrum. More recently numerical and experimental studies in the field of supercontinuum sources have tackled novel subjects such as soliton and rogue wave analysis, the thermodynamic approach, original nonlinear schemes, the use of active fibers, power stabilization, and continuous-wave visible generation. All of these studies have raised fiber supercontinuum sources (FSSs) to a sufficient degree of maturity for seriously considering their industrialization in several application areas.
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