Soliton induced supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 876-884

  Sakamaki, K ^a   Nakao, M ^b   Naganuma, M ^c   Izutsu, M ^d  

^a FUKUSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Nonlinear pulse propagation; Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); Raman solitons; Supercontinuum (SC) generation

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); RAMAN SOLITONS; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) GENERATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 10944253116     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.837223     Document Type: Article

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