Measurement of white-light supercontinuum beam properties from a photonic crystal fibre using a laser scanning confocal microscope

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2609-2615

  Esposito, Elric ^a   Harris, John ^a   Burns, David ^a   McConnell, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Characterization; Confocal; Nonlinear optics; Supercontinuum

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FIBERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTH;

BEAM PROPERTIES; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCE EMISSION PROPERTIES;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

DIFFRACTION; FIBERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 34547476087     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/18/8/036     Document Type: Article

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