Experimental investigations on nonlinear dynamics in supercontinuum generation with feedback

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7190-7202

  Brauckmann, Nicoletta ^a   Kues, Michael ^a   Walbaum, Till ^a   Groß, Petra ^a   Fallnich, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHAOTIC BEHAVIORS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; GENERATING SYSTEM; HIGHER ORDER; LIMIT CYCLE; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERIOD DOUBLING; REPETITION RATE; RING CAVITIES; STEADY STATE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS;

NONLINEAR FEEDBACK;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 77950200987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007190     Document Type: Article

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