Flat supercontinuum generation in cascaded fibers pumped by a continuous wave laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11046-11051

  Guo, Chunyu ^a   Ruan, Shuangchen ^a   Yan, Peiguang ^a   Pan, Erming ^a   Wei, Huifeng ^b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPS;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; LONG WAVELENGTH; NON-LINEARITY; PUMP ENERGIES; SPECTRAL INTENSITY; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL RANGE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

PUMPING (LASER);

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS;

EID: 77952803034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011046     Document Type: Article

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