Long wavelength extension of CW-pumped supercontinuum through soliton-dispersive wave interactions

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24729-24734

  Chapman, B H ^a   Travers, J C ^a   Popov, S V ^a   Mussot, A ^b   Kudlinski, A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UMR National Center for Scientific Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPING (LASER); SOLITONS; YTTERBIUM;

CHERENKOV RADIATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DISPERSIVE COMPONENTS; DISPERSIVE WAVES; HIGH-POWER; LONG WAVELENGTH; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SOLID CORE; SPECTRAL POWER; SPECTRUM DISPLAYS; SUPERCONTINUUM; YTTERBIUM FIBER LASER; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 78649693174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024729     Document Type: Article

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