Highly efficient wideband continuum generation in a single-mode optical fiber by powerful broadband laser pumping

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2548-2553

  Ilev, I ^a,b   Kumagai, H ^a   Toyoda, K ^a   Koprinkov, I ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Broadband laser pumping; Nonlinear frequency conversion; Single mode fiber

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011712239     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002548     Document Type: Article

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