Conditions for highly efficient anti-stokes conversion in gas-filled hollow core waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7131-7137

  Barber, Zeb William ^a   Renner, Christoffer ^a   Reibel, Randy Ray ^a   Wagemann, Stephen Scott ^a   Babbitt, Wm Randall ^a   Roos, Peter Aaron ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bridger Photonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

ANTI-STOKES; CAPILLARY WAVEGUIDES; HOLLOW CORE WAVEGUIDE; RAMAN CONVERSION; UNSTABLE REGIONS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 77950283226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007131     Document Type: Article

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