Pulse breaking and supercontinuum generation with 200-fs pump pulses in photonic crystal fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2567-2572

  Ortigosa Blanch, A ^a   Knight, J C ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLITONS;

PULSE BREAKING;

CRYSTAL FILTERS;

EID: 0043100557     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002567     Document Type: Article

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