Enhanced supercontinuum generation in the nanosecond pump regime using specialty microstructured fibers

ICTON 2009: 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cascante Vindas, Jaime ^a   Díez, Antonio ^a   Torres Peiró, Salvador ^a   Cruz, José Luis ^a   Andrés, Miguel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fiber tapers; Ge and er doped microstructured fiber; Microstructured fibers; Nonlinear optics; Supercontinuum generation

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; EFFECTIVE AREA; ER-DOPED; EXCITATION CONDITIONS; FIBER TAPERS; GE- AND ER-DOPED MICROSTRUCTURED FIBER; MATERIAL NONLINEAR; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; Q SWITCHED ND:YAG LASER; REPETITION RATE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GERMANIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PUMPS; SILICA; TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 70449411425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2009.5184971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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