Route to coherent supercontinuum generation in the long pulse regime

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1331-1335

  Genty, Goëry ^a   Dudley, John M ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical solitons

Indexed keywords

FIBER LENGTH; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; INPUT PULSE; LONG PULSE; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MODULATION PARAMETERS; NON-LINEAR FIBER; OPTICAL MODULATION; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL SOLITON; OPTICAL SOLITONS; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS;

FIBERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 73749086544     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2028032     Document Type: Article

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