Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Corwin, K L ^a   Newbury, N R ^a   Dudley, J M ^b   Coen, S ^c   Diddams, S A ^a   Weber, K ^a   Windeler, R S ^d  

^a National Insto of Standards and Tech   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER PULSES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; STATISTICS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; ELECTRICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; HEAVISIDE STEP FUNCTION; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION PROCESS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0037628767     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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