Fundamental limits to few-cycle pulse generation from compression of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2423-2428

  Dudley, John M ^a   Coen, Stéphane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; JITTER; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PULSE FLUCTUATIONS; RANDOM QUANTUM NOISE; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 2942720591     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002423     Document Type: Article

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