A full vectorial model for pulse propagation in emerging waveguides with subwavelength structures part ii: Stimulated Raman Scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11565-11581

  Turner, Mark D ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a   Afshar V , Shahraam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

(060.4005) Microstructured fibers; (190.4360) Nonlinear optics, devices; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (190.5650) Raman effect

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES;

MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS , DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICS , FIBERS; NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERINGS (SRS); SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; THE STANDARD MODEL; WEAK GUIDANCE APPROXIMATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 67650562018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011565     Document Type: Article

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