Nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with a structured multi-component glass core for fourwave mixing and supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15392-15401

  Tombelaine, Vincent ^a,c   Labruyère, Alexis ^b   Kobelke, Jens ^a   Schuster, Kay ^a   Reichel, Volker ^a   Leproux, Philippe ^b   Couderc, Vincent ^b   Jamie, Raphaël ^b   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c LEUKOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GLASS; HOLEY FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; FREQUENCY DETUNING; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MULTICOMPONENT GLASS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 69949086658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015392     Document Type: Article

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