Homogeneous Raman gain saturation at high pump and stokes powers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1524-1530

  Babin, Sergey A ^a   Churkin, Dmitriy V ^a   Kablukov, Sergey I ^a   Podivilov, Evgeny V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING (CARS); PHOSPHOSILICATE FIBER; RAMAN GAIN SATURATION;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 33750067979     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001524     Document Type: Article

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