Supercontinuum generation and soliton timing jitter in SF6 soft glass photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5942-5953

  Efimov, Anatoly ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; JITTER; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLITONS; WAVELENGTH;

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING (FROG); NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; SOLITON TIMING JITTER; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

GLASS FIBERS;

GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; GLASS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 42149092622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005942     Document Type: Article

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