Spectral shaping of supercontinuum in a cobweb photonic-crystal fiber with sub-20-fs pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2165-2170

  Apolonski, Alexander ^a,b   Povazay, Boris ^c   Unterhuber, Angelika ^c   Drexler, Wolfgang ^c   Wadsworth, William J ^d   Knight, Jonathan C ^d   Russell, Phillip St J ^d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RELAXATION PROCESSES;

PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0001282280     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002165     Document Type: Article

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