Emerging nonlinear optical fibers: revised fundamentals, fabrication and access to extreme nonlinearity

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1357-1364

  Monro, Tanya M ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Zhang, Wen Qi ^a   Vahid, Shahraam Afshar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kerr nonlinearity; Microstructured optical fiber; Nanowire; Soft glass

Indexed keywords

GENERALISATION; KERR NONLINEARITY; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBER; NON-LINEAR FIBER; NON-LINEAR THEORY; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR OPTICAL FIBER; SOFT GLASS;

GLASS; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

FIBERS;

EID: 77949769906     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2031600     Document Type: Review

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