Ultraviolet-enhanced supercontinuum generation in tapered photonic crystal fiber

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 592-598

  Stark, S P ^a   Podlipensky, A ^a   Joly, N Y ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLITONS;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; DISPERSIVE WAVE GENERATION; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; FS PULSE; HIGHER-ORDER SOLITONS; INPUT POWER; INPUT PULSE; LOW POWER; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION; SPECTRAL RANGE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77949289672     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000592     Document Type: Article

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