Flatly broadened supercontinuum spectrum-generated in a dispersion decreasing fibre with convex dispersion profile

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 1806-1808

  Mori, K ^a   Takara, H ^a   Kawanishi, S ^a   Saruwatari, M ^a,b   Morioka, T ^a,c  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^c ICC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical communication; Optical fibre dispersion

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION (GVD); SUPERCONTINUUM PULSE GENERATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031561304     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971184     Document Type: Article

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