Coherence of subsequent supercontinuum pulses generated in tapered fibers in the femtosecond regime

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2732-2741

  Turke D ^a   Pricking, S ^a   Husakou, A ^b   Teipel, J ^a   Herrmann, J ^b   Giessen, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE NOISE; QUANTUM THEORY;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; SUPERCONTINUUM PULSES; TAPERED FIBERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33847745374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002732     Document Type: Article

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