Patent ID: 9564729
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G02F,H01S

Claim:
1. A broadband supercontinuum light emitting device comprising: a nonlinear optical fiber; a pump system; a cavity; and an active medium, located inside said cavity, configured and arranged to, by means of a pumping provided by said pump system, generate and emit pulses of laser light towards said nonlinear optical fiber which excite nonlinear effects thereof in order to generate and emit supercontinuum light from an output end of said nonlinear optical fiber, wherein said cavity and said active medium are configured so that the pulses of laser light generated and emitted by the active medium are chaotic pulses of light that excite the nonlinear effects of said nonlinear optical fiber so that said nonlinear optical fiber generate and emit the supercontinuum light in the form of pulses of light distributed randomly over time.