Pump polarization-state preservation of picosecond generated white-light supercontinuum

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 957-964

  De Boni, Leonardo ^b   Toro, Carlos ^b   Hernández, Florencio E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry UCF

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PUMPING;

OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) GENERATION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 38549116121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000957     Document Type: Article

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