Efficient supercontinuum generations in silica suspended core fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 16629-16642

  Fu, Libin ^a   Thomas, Brian K ^a   Dong, Liang ^a  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; PHASE MATCHING; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); SILICA; SOLITONS;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; DISPERSION SLOPES; DISPERSIVE WAVE GENERATION; FUNDAMENTAL SOLITONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 56749151137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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