Supercontinuum optical vortex pulse generation without spatial or topological-charge dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14517-14525

  Tokizane, Yu ^a   Oka, Kazuhiko ^a   Morita, Ryuji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

NONLINEAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL VORTEX GENERATIONS; OPTICAL VORTICES; POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; PULSE GENERATION; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

DISPERSIONS;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 69049106488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014517     Document Type: Article

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