Analysis and design of supercontinuum pulse generation in a single-mode optical fiber

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1780-1792

  Mori, Kunihiko ^a   Takara, Hidehiko ^a   Kawanishi, Satoki ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING;

SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) PULSE GENERATION;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0035633053     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001780     Document Type: Article

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