Soliton transmission and supercontinuum generation in holey fiber, using a diode pumped Ytterbium fiber source

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 382-387

  Price, J H V ^a   Belardi, W ^a   Monro, T M ^a   Malinowski, A ^a   Piper, A ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER LASERS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

HOLEY FIBER; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; SOLITON COMPRESSION; SOLITON DISPERSION;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0000960371     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000382     Document Type: Article

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