Stable supercontinuum generation in short lengths of conventional dispersion-shifted fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 36, 1999, Pages 7364-73639

  Nowak, George A ^a,b   Kim, Jaeyoun ^a   Islam, Mohammed N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

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EID: 0001078682     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.007364     Document Type: Article

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