Improving efficiency of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers by direct degenerate four-wave mixing

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2329-2337

  Nikolov, Nikola I ^a   Sørensen, Thorkild ^a   Bang, Ole ^a   Bjarklev, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE MODULATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0242410188     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002329     Document Type: Article

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