Fresnel diffraction supercontinuum generation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1229-1232

  Ni, Xiaohui ^a   Wang, Chun ^a   Liang, Xiangchun ^a   Al Rubaiee, Mohammad ^a   Alfano, R R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Four wave mixing (FWM); Fresnel zones; Nonlinear optics; Self phase modulation (SPM); Self focusing; Supercontinuum (SC)

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

FRESNEL ZONES; SELF PHASE MODULATION (SPM); SELF-FOCUSING; SUPERCONTINNUM (SC);

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 10944233680     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.836022     Document Type: Article

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