Noise amplification during supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 944-946

  Newbury, N R ^a   Washburn, B R ^a   Corwin, K L ^a   Windeler, R S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; WHITE NOISE;

MICROSTRUCTURE FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0038137054     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000944     Document Type: Article

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11. For a supercontinuum with fixed width and ignorning the Raman effect, a mean of 1 is correct, but given the large fluctuations the distinction is unimportant.