Time-spectrally-resolved ultrafast nonlinear dynamics in small-core photonic crystal fibers: Experiment and modelling

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 6498-6507

  Efimov, Anatoly ^a   Taylor, A J ^a   Omenetto, F G ^b   Yulin, A V ^c   Joly, N Y ^c   Biancalana, F ^c   Skryabin, D V ^c   Knight, J C ^c   Russell, P St J ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERENKOV COUNTERS; DYNAMICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLITONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DISPERSIVE WAVES; SOLITON STABILIZATION; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 11244256616     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006498     Document Type: Article

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