Tunable diffraction and self-defocusing in liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12145-12150

  Rosberg, Christian R ^a   Bennet, Francis H ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Rasmussen, Per D ^b   Bang, Ole ^b   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Bjarklev, Anders ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ALL-OPTICAL POWER LIMITER; NONLINEAR LIQUIDS; THERMAL SELF-DEFOCUSING; TUNABLE BEAM DIFFRACTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34648840360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012145     Document Type: Article

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