Interaction of supercontinuum and Raman solitons with microstructure fiber gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 998-1007

  Li, Yufeng ^a   Salisbury, F Cedric ^a   Zhu, Zhaoming ^a   Brown, Thomas G ^a   Westbrook, Paul S ^b   Feder, Kenneth S ^b   Windeler, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MEASUREMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

INFRARED (IR) WAVELENGTHS; MICROSTRUCTURE FIBERS; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) GENERATION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 14744282803     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000998     Document Type: Article

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