Cavity dispersion management in continuous-wave supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12785-12793

  Martin Lopez, Sonia ^a   Corredera, Pedro ^a   Gonzalez Herraez, Miguel ^b  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER);

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; CONTINUOUS-WAVE PUMPING; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; RAMAN FIBER LASERS; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 67749095004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012785     Document Type: Article

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