Ultra-low threshold supercontinuum generation in sub-wavelength waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3137-3143

  Foster, Mark A ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION;

MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSES; PULSE ENERGIES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION (SCG);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 4644289314     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003137     Document Type: Article

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