Pulse preserving flat-top supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fibers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 550-559

  Heidt, Alexander M ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FEMTOSECONDS; FLAT-TOP; HIGH ENERGY; INPUT PULSE; LINEAR CHIRP; NORMAL DISPERSION; OPTICAL CYCLES; PEAK POWER; PHASE COMPENSATION; PULSE PROFILE; SINGLE PULSE; SPECTRAL POWER DENSITY; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TIME DOMAIN;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 77949303992     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000550     Document Type: Article

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