Enhanced visible continuum generation from a microchip 1064nm laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 371-376

  Xiong, C ^a   Witkowska, A ^a   Leon Saval, S G ^a   Birks, T A ^a   Wadsworth, W J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DISPERSIONS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

CASCADED NONLINEAR PROCESS; DISPERSION REGIME; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE;

LASERS;

EID: 33745453177     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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