Colloquium: Looking at a soliton through the prism of optical supercontinuum

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1287-1299

  Skryabin, Dmitry V ^a   Gorbach, Andrey V ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCESSES; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OCEAN WAVES; RADIATION INTERACTIONS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA; ULTRACOLD ATOMS;

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLITONS; WATER WAVES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 77953251107     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1287     Document Type: Article

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