Enhanced cross phase modulation instability in birefringent photonic crystal fibers in the anomalous dispersion regime

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8290-8297

  Nguyen, Anh Than ^a   Huy, Kien Phan ^a   Brainis, Edouard ^a   Mergo, Pawel ^b   Wojcik, Jan ^b   Nasilowski, Tomasz ^c   Van Erps, Jurgen ^c   Thienpont, Hugo ^c   Massar, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; VECTORS;

CROSS PHASE MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY (CPMI); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SCALAR MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY (SMI);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33748301919     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008290     Document Type: Article

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