Generation of megawatt optical solitons in hollow-core photonic band-gap fibers

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5640, 2003, Pages 1702-1704

  Ouzounov, Dimitre G ^a   Ahmad, Faisal R ^a   Müller, Dirk ^b   Venkataraman, Natesan ^b   Gallagher, Michael T ^b   Thomas, Malcolm G ^a   Silcox, John ^a   Koch, Karl W ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

^b Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS;

WAVELENGTH;

SOLITONS;

FIBER OPTICS; WAVELENGTH;

AIR; ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AIR; FIBER OPTICS; MATHEMATICS; PHOTONS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; XENON;

EID: 0141543673     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088387     Document Type: Article

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27. D.G.O., F.R.A., and A.L.G. gratefully acknowledge support by Army Research Office grant DAAD19-01-1-0341, by NIH National Cancer Institute grant R44CA88391-02, by Air Force Office of Scientific Research under contract number F49620-03-1-0223, and by the Center for Nanoscale Systems, supported by NSF under award number EEC-0117770.