Ultraviolet-visible non-supercontinuum ultrafast source enabled by switching single silicon strand-like photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17983-17988

  Tu, Haohua ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; CHERENKOV RADIATIONS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 70349683176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017983     Document Type: Article

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