Highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber for supercontinuum generation and femtosecond pulse compression

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3591-3596

  Gopinath, Juliet T ^a   Shen, Hanfei M ^a   Sotobayashi, Hideyuki ^a,b   Ippen, Erich P ^a   Hasegawa, Tomoharu ^c   Nagashima, Tatsuo ^c   Sugimoto, Naoki ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear fiber; Nonlinear optics; Pulse compression; Ultrafast nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE; NONLINEAR FIBER; PULSE COMPRESSION; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 30344446250     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.855872     Document Type: Article

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