Delivery of sub-100fs pulses through 8m of hollow-core fiber using soliton compression

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7126-7131

  Gerome F ^a   Cook, K ^a   George, A K ^a   Wadsworth, W J ^a   Knight, J C ^a  

^a Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials Department of Physics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; PULSE ENERGY; SINGLE MODE PROPAGATION; SOLITON COMPRESSION;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 34250163927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007126     Document Type: Article

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