Octave-spanning supercontinuum generated in SF6-glass PCF by a 1060 nm mode-locked fibre laser delivering 20 pJ per pulse

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1919-1924

  Hundertmark, H ^a   Rammler, S ^a   Wilken, T ^b   Holzwarth, R ^b   Hansch T W ^b   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GLASS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPHS; FREQUENCY COMBS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; SPECTRAL BROADENING; YB FIBER LASERS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 59749089987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001919     Document Type: Article

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