Wavelength tunable high-repetition-rate picosecond and femtosecond pulse sources based on highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1203-1210

  Abedin, Kazi S ^a   Kubota, Fumito ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mode locking; Optical communication; Optical fiber lasers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse generation; Optical soliton self frequency shift; Optical solitons; Photonic crystal fiber

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PULSE GENERATORS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

MODE-LOCKING; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; OPTICAL SOLITONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 10944242646     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.837229     Document Type: Article

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