Supercontinuum generation, four-wave mixing, and fission of higher-order solitons in photonic-crystal fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2171-2182

  Husakou, Anton V ^a   Herrmann, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCIES; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0037875235     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002171     Document Type: Article

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