Optical frequency up-conversion by supercontinuum-free widely-tunable fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9858-9872

  Tu, Haohua ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; INFRARED DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPING (LASER); RADIATION; SAPPHIRE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TUNING;

CHERENKOV RADIATIONS; FIBER PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PUMP-TO-SIGNAL CONVERSION; PUMPING CONDITION; SUPER CONTINUUM; WIDELY TUNABLE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 66849095776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009858     Document Type: Article

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