Patent-family-84568860

Disclosed is a supercontinuum light source, comprising: a pulsed light source configured to emit a train of light-pulses; a modulation-module configured to modulate the train of light-pulses, thereby producing a modified train of light-pulses, wherein the modified train of light-pulses comprises a plurality of modified light-pulses, wherein each of the plurality of modified light-pulses is defined by at least: a peak-power, P₀, and a pulse width, T₀, and; one or more non-linear element(s) being defined by at least: a non-linear coefficient, γ, and a group-velocity dispersion parameter, β₂, whereby each of the plurality of modified light pulses is further defined by: a soliton number, N, where N² = T₀² γ P₀/|β₂|, wherein said non-linear element(s) is/are configured to spectrally broadening the plurality of modified light-pulses, thereby generating a train of supercontinuum-pulses.