The role of the second zero-dispersion wavelength in generation of supercontinua and bright-bright soliton-pairs across the zero-dispersion wavelength

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6181-6192

  Frosz, Michael H ^a   Falk, Peter ^a   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTALS; LASER PULSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTHS (ZDW);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 24044441598     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006181     Document Type: Article

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