Beneficial impact of wave-breaking for coherent continuum formation in normally dispersive nonlinear fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1938-1948

  Finot, Christophe ^a   Kibler, Bertrand ^a   Provost, Lionel ^b   Wabnitz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DISPERSIVE FIBER; KERR NONLINEARITY; NON-LINEAR FIBER; OPTICAL WAVE BREAKING; SPECTRAL IMPACT; WAVEBREAKING;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 59949085094     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001938     Document Type: Article

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