Harmonic extended supercontinuum generation and carrier envelope phase dependent spectral broadening in silica nanowires

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 10886-10893

  Genty, Goëry ^a   Kibler, Bertrand ^b   Kinsler, Paul ^c   Dudley, John M ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPS; SILICA;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; INTERACTION DYNAMICS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; PULSE DURATIONS; PUMP PULSE; SILICA NANO WIRES; SPECTRAL BROADENING; THIRD HARMONIC;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

NANOTUBE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 47849108288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010886     Document Type: Article

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