Highly birefringent silicate glass photonic-crystal fiber with polarization-controlled frequency-shifted output: A promising fiber light source for nonlinear Raman microspectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10645-10651

  Mitrofanov, Aleksandr V ^a   Linik, Yaroslav M ^a   Buczynski, Ryszard ^b   Pysz, Dariusz ^c   Lorenc, Dusan ^d   Bugar, Ignac ^d   Ivanov, Anatoly A ^e   Alfimov, Mikhail V ^e   Fedotov, Andrei B ^a   Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^d INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^e PHOTOCHEMISTRY CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; GLASS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); RAMAN MICROSPECTROSCOPY; SILICATE GLASS; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33750711028     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010645     Document Type: Article

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