Nanomanagement of dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain of photonic-crystal fibers: Qualitative arguments of the Gaussian-mode theory and nonperturbative numerical analysis

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1700-1707

  Serebryannikov, Evgenii E ^a   Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

FIBER DISPERSION; FIBER GAIN; GAUSSIAN-MODE THEORY; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33750054114     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001700     Document Type: Article

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