Significant reduction of power fluctuations at the long-wavelength edge of a supercontinuum generated in solid-core photonic bandgap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 24352-24360

  Vanvincq, O ^a   Barviau, B ^a   Mussot, A ^a   Bouwmans, G ^a   Quiquempois, Y ^a   Kudlinski, A ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; SOLITONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BAND-GAP EDGE; GAUSSIANS; INFRARED EDGES; LONG WAVELENGTH; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POWER FLUCTUATIONS; SOLID CORE; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT; SPECTRAL DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL POWER; STANDARD FIBERS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SUPERCONTINUA; SUPERCONTINUUM; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 78149428779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024352     Document Type: Article

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