Nanoengineering of photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuum spectral shaping

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1692-1699

  Frosz, Michael H ^a   Sørensen, Thorkild ^a   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

FIBER STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33750078700     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001692     Document Type: Article

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