The effect of dispersion on spectral broadening of incoherent continuous-wave light in optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22393-22405

  Soh, Daniel B S ^a   Koplow, Jeffrey P ^a   Moore, Sean W ^a   Schroder, Kevin L ^a   Hsu, Wen L ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FIBERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; FIBER DISPERSION; FIBER NONLINEARITIES; INCOHERENT LIGHT; INITIAL STAGES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATING CONDITION; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; RATE EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; STEADY STATE;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 78049489270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022393     Document Type: Article

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