Four-wave mixing of solitons with radiation and quasi-nondispersive wave packets at the short-wavelength edge of a supercontinuum

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9854-9862

  Gorbach, A V ^a   Skryabin, D V ^a   Stone, J M ^a   Knight, J C ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONS;

DISPERSIVE WAVES; FREQUENCY GENERATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33750316242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009854     Document Type: Article

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