Harnessing and control of optical rogue waves in supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3644-3651

  Dudley, John M ^a   Genty, Goëry ^b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EVOLUTION DYNAMICS; OPTICAL ROGUE WAVES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; WAVE DYNAMICS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 41149167818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003644     Document Type: Article

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