Experimental study on seed light source coherence dependence of continuous-wave supercontinuum performance

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3443-3452

  Lee, Ju Han ^a   Han, Young Geun ^a   Lee, Sang Bae ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FILTERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; ERBIUM FIBER RING LASER; SUPERCONTINUUM PERFORMANCE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33645801212     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003443     Document Type: Article

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