Cross-coherence measurements of supercontinua generated in highly-nonlinear, dispersion shifted fiber at 1550 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 679-688

  Nicholson, J W ^a   Yan, M F ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; STATISTICAL OPTICS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CROSS COHERENCE MEASUREMENTS; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; NEAR INFRARED; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 2942741192     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000679     Document Type: Article

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