Coherence degradation in the process of supercontinuum generation in an optical fiber

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 215-223

  Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Tamura, Kohichi ^a   Kubota, Hirokazu ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; Four wave mixing; Soliton; Supercontinuum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000065019     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ofte.1998.0253     Document Type: Article

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