Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1135-1184

  Dudley, John M ^a,b,c   Genty, Goëry ^b,c   Coen, Stéphane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIVE WAVE GENERATION; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SOLITON FISSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; VELOCITY CONTROL;

FIBERS;

EID: 33749464995     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.78.1135     Document Type: Article

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