Patent 12135453 was granted and assigned to NKT Photonics A/S on November, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A supercontinuum source including a pump source and a supercontinuum generator configured for receiving electromagnetic radiation derived from the pump source and for generating supercontinuum radiation, the supercontinuum generator including a nonlinear microstructured optical fibre having a core region comprising silica. The core region includes a dopant selected to reduce light-induced non-bridging oxygen hole centre loss in the nonlinear microstructured optical fibre.