High-power soliton-induced supercontinuum generation and tunable sub-10-fs VUV pulses from kagome-lattice HC-PCFs

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5367-5374

  Im, Song Jin ^a,b   Husakou, Anton ^a   Herrmann, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Natural Science Center   (North Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INERT GASES; SOLITONS;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; BROAD BANDS; KAGOME LATTICE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OUTPUT RADIATION; PULSE ENERGIES; SPECTRAL PEAK; TEMPORAL DOMAIN;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

INERT GAS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NOBLE GASES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77949639594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005367     Document Type: Article

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