Silica-glass contribution to the effective nonlinearity of hollow-core photonic band-gap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3507-3512

  Hensley, Christopher J ^a   Ouzounov, Dimitre G ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Venkataraman, Natesan ^b   Gallagher, Michael T ^b   Koch, Karl W ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; ENGINEERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS STRUCTURE; HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BAND-GAP FIBERS; NANOMETERS;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 33947392102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003507     Document Type: Article

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