Dispersive wave blue-shift in supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 11997-12007

  Austin, Dane R ^a   De Sterke, C Martijn ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Brown, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

FREQUENCY SHIFTS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TEMPORAL COMPRESSION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 33845456249     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011997     Document Type: Article

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