Coherent properties of super-continuum containing clearly defined solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3968-3980

  Kobtsev, Serguei M ^a   Smirnov, Serguei V ^a  

^a NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING;

COHERENT PROPERTIES; DINGER EQUATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PUMP PULSE; SIMPLE MODELING; SUPER CONTINUUM;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 36249030788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003968     Document Type: Article

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