Increasing the blue-shift of a supercontinuum by modifying the fiber glass composition

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 21076-21086

  Frosz, Michael H ^a,b   Moselund, Peter M ^a,b   Rasmussen, Per D ^a   Thomsen, Carsten L ^b   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Koheras A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLASS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT VELOCITY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; VELOCITY;

DISPERSIVE WAVES; GLASS COMPOSITIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

GLASS; GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 57349144531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021076     Document Type: Article

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