Towards efficient and broadband four-wave-mixing using short-length dispersion tailored lead silicate holey fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 596-601

  Asimakis, S ^a   Petropoulos, P ^a   Poletti, F ^a   Leong, J Y Y ^a   Moore, R C ^a   Frampton, K E ^a   Feng, X ^a   Loh, W H ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SILICATES;

BROADBAND WAVELENGTH; LEAD SILICATE HOLEY FIBERS; SHORT-LENGTH DISPERSION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 33846552279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000596     Document Type: Article

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