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We report an ultrabroadband supercontinuum (SC) generation with high coherence property in all-normal-dispersion (ANDi) Te-based chalcogenide all-solid microstructured optical fiber (AS-MOF). The fiber was fabricated using a rod-in-tube method that presents four A s 2 S 3 glass rods selected as low refractive index material ( n = 2.4 ) embedded in a G e 20 A s 20 S e 20 T e 40 glass matrix ( n = 3.1 ). The highly symmetrical four-hole MOF preform was fabricated through the computerized numerical control precision mechanical drilling method. By engineering the structure of the fiber, we determined an ANDi characteristic in the range of 2–13.5 µm when the core diameter of the fiber was ≤ 10 µ m . Under pumping at 5 µm, a highly coherent SC generation in the range of 2–13.2 µm was generated in a 16-cm-long AS-MOF with core diameter of 9.8 µm.

In this study, the supercontinuum (SC) generation in a 1-m-long As₂S₃ fiber with a 200 μm core diameter was demonstrated experimentally. The high-purity As₂S₃ fiber we used exhibited very low optical loss with a background loss of approximately 0.1 dB/m at a wavelength of 2-5 μm. SC generation was studied by pumping the fiber at different wavelengths and different peak powers. A strong spectral broadening with a 30 dB spectral flatness spanning from 1.4 to 7.0 µm was obtained when the fiber was pumped with 150 fs short pulses at 5.0 µm. The SC generation in bent fiber was also studied. The result showed that the bending radius of the fiber will significantly affect the SC spectra bandwidth and the output power. The SC spectra in the used fiber could still be maintained when it was bent to a radius of 5 cm.

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