Spectrally-bounded continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6745-6755

  Martin Lopez, Sonia ^a   Abrardi, Laura ^a   Corredera, Pedro ^a   Gonzalez Herraez, Miguel ^b   Mussot, Arnaud ^c  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; WAVELENGTH;

AVERAGE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (APSD); CONTINUOUS-WAVE PUMPING; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) GENERATION; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTHS (ZDW);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 43049113540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006745     Document Type: Article

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