Visible supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers with a 400 W continuous wave fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14435-14447

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

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER); SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DISPERSIVE WAVES; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL POWER DENSITY; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS; YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

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

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

EID: 51849109523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014435     Document Type: Article

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