Enhanced degree of temporal coherence through temporal and spatial phase coupling within a focused supercontinuum

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20140-20148

  Chick, Brendan J ^a   Chon, James W M ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

NUMERICAL APERTURE LENS; PHASE EVOLUTIONS; PULSE EVOLUTION; SOLITON FISSION; SUPER CONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL COHERENCE;

DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70749116963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020140     Document Type: Article

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