A fourth-order Runge-Kutta in the interaction picture method for simulating supercontinuum generation in optical fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3770-3775

  Hult, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation (NLSE); Numerical analysis; Optical solitons; Runge Kutta method; Split step Fourier method; Supercontinuum radiation

Indexed keywords

BOSE- EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS; FOURTH ORDERS; HIGH DEMANDS; HIGH-ORDER SCHEMES; NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL ACCURACIES; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; OPTICAL SOLITONS; RUNGE-KUTTA; RUNGE-KUTTA METHOD; SECOND ORDERS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPLIT-STEP FOURIER METHOD; SUPER-CONTINUUM GENERATIONS; SUPERCONTINUUM RADIATION;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SOLITONS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 42449128604     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.909373     Document Type: Article

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