Generation of wideband and flat supercontinuum over a 280-nm spectral range from a dispersion-flattened optical fiber with normal group-velocity dispersion

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E82-B, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1265-1272

  Futami, Fumio ^a   Takushima, Yuichi ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dispersion flattened fiber; Group velocity dispersion; Self phase modulation; Supercontinuum

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; SELF-PHASE MODULATION; SUPERCONTINUUM;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032596424     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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