Supercontinuum generation in an imaging fiber taper

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12359-12364

  Shi, Kebin ^a   Omenetto, Fiorenzo G ^b   Liu, Zhiwen ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

IMAGING TAPERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); SUPERCONTINUUM ARRAYS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845447818     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012359     Document Type: Article

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