Low noise wavelength conversion of femtosecond pulses with dispersion micro-managed holey fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8172-8178

  Lu, Fei ^a   Knox, Wayne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

ANTI-STOKES RADIATION (ASR); DISPERSION MICRO-MANAGED (DMM); NONLINEAR CONVERSION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 30144441092     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008172     Document Type: Article

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