Supercontinuum generation in submicrometer diameter silica fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9408-9414

  Gattass, Rafael R ^a   Svacha, Geoffry T ^a   Tong, Limin ^b   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; LASER PULSES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICA;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; SUBMICROMETER DIAMETER SILICA FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 33749393171     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009408     Document Type: Article

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