Supercontinuum generation in a water-core photonic crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9671-9676

  Bozolan, Alexandre ^a   De Matos, Christiano J S ^a   Cordeiro, Cristiano M B ^b   Dos Santos, Eliane M ^b   Travers, John ^c  

^a MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

PEAK POWER; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WATER;

EID: 46149087305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009671     Document Type: Article

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