Supercontinuum generation in silica fibers by amplified nanosecond laser diode pulses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 789-796

  Xia, Chenan ^b   Kumar, Malay ^b   Cheng, Ming Yuan ^b   Kulkarni, Ojas P ^b   Islam, Mohammed N ^a,b,c   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^b   Terry Jr , Fred L ^a,b   Freeman, Mike J ^c   Nolan, Daniel A ^a,d   Wood, William A ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Omni Sciences Inc   (United States)

^d Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Midinfrared; Modulation instability (MI); Soliton; Supercontinuum (SC)

Indexed keywords

MODULATION INSTABILITY (MI); SUPERCONTINUUM (SC); SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLITONS;

SILICA;

EID: 34250698508     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.897414     Document Type: Article

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