Soliton compression to ultra-short pulses using cascaded quadratic nonlinearities in silica photonic crystal fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6588, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bache, M ^a   Laegsgaard J ^a   Bang, O ^a   Moses, J ^b   Wise, F W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Modelling and simulation of nonlinear photonic crystal fibers; Ultra high power and ultra short pulse delivery; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DESIGN PARAMETER SPACE; POLING EFFICIENCY; QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY; SILICA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SOLITON COMPRESSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 36248974312     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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