Supercontinuum generation with a chirped-pulse oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5905-5911

  Fuerbach, A ^a,b   Miese, C ^a   Koehler, W ^b   Geissler, M ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SAPPHIRE;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; INPUT PULSE ENERGY; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PEAK INTENSITY; SOLITON FISSION; SUPER CONTINUUM; TWO-STEP PROCESS; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65249120759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005905     Document Type: Article

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