Fundamentals of stable continuum generation at high repetition rates

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 773-779

  Tamura, Kohichi R ^a,b   Kubota, Hirokazu ^b   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS; WHITE NOISE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; CONTINUUM GENERATION; NONLINEAR SCHROEDINGER EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SEED PULSES; OPTICAL NOISE; OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL SOLITONS; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034224647     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.848347     Document Type: Article

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