Mid-IR supercontinuum generation from nonsilica microstruetured optical fibers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 738-749

  Price, Jonathan H V ^a,b   Monro, Tanya M ^d   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^d   Poletti, Francesco ^b   Horak, Peter ^b   Finazzi, Vittoria ^c   Leong, Julie Y Y ^b   Petropoulos, Periklis ^b   Flanagan, Joanne C ^d   Brambilla, Gilberto ^b   Feng, Xian ^b   Richardson, David J ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Infrared; Microstructured fibers; Nonlinear fiber optics; Supercontinuum

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS; NONSILICA GLASSES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHASE MATCHING; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34250735631     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.896648     Document Type: Article

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