Visible supercontinuum generation in holey fibers by dual-wavelength subnanosecond pumping

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2466-2468

  Tombelaine, Vincent ^a   Leproux, Philippe ^a   Couderc, Vincent ^a   Barthélémy, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Nonlinear propagation; Optical frequency conversion

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIZATION;

DUAL-WAVELENGTH SUBNANOSECOND PUMPING; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 33947226165     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.886859     Document Type: Article

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