Supercontinuum and four-wave mixing with Q-switched pulses in endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fibres

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-309

  Wadsworth, W J ^a   Joly, N ^a   Knight, J C ^a   Birks, T A ^a   Biancalana, F ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FUSED SILICA; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PHASE MATCHING CONDITIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); SINGLE-MODE OPERATION; SUPERCONTINUUM;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 2942729817     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000299     Document Type: Article

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