A highly non-linear tellurite microstructure fiber with multi-ring holes for supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15481-15490

  Liao, Meisong ^a   Yan, Xin ^a   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Chaudhari, Chitrarekha ^a   Suzuki, Takenobu ^a   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

COMPLEX MICROSTRUCTURES; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FINE STRUCTURES; INDIRECT METHODS; MICROSTRUCTURE FIBERS; POSITIVE PRESSURE; TELLURITE FIBER;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 69949111669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015481     Document Type: Article

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