Frequency-tunable supercontinuum generation in photonic-crystal fibers by femtosecond pulses of an optical parametric amplifier

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2156-2164

  Fedotov, Andrei B ^a   Naumov, Aleksandr N ^a   Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^a   Sugar, Ignac ^b   Chorvat Jr , Dusan ^b   Chorvat, Dusan ^b   Tarasevitch, Alexander P ^c   Von der Linde, Dietrich ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0001203629     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002156     Document Type: Article

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