29 W High power CW supercontinuum source

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5954-5962

  Cumberland, B A ^a   Travers, J C ^a   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; HIGH POWER LASERS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; WAVELENGTH;

CONTINUUM EVOLUTION; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; WATER LOSS;

LIGHT SOURCES;

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

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

EID: 42449151728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005954     Document Type: Article

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