Dispersion-engineered photonic crystal fibers for CW-pumped supercontinuum sources

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1556-1564

  Kudlinski, Alexandre ^a   Bouwmans, Géraud ^a   Douay, Marc ^a   Taki, Majid ^a   Mussot, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersive waves; Photonic crystal fibers; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DISPERSIVE WAVES; NONLINEAR MECHANISMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OUTPUT POWER; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL CONTROL; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 66949176641     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2015966     Document Type: Article

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