Limitations of the linear Raman gain approximation in modeling broadband nonlinear propagation in optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25449-25460

  Erkintalo, Miro ^a   Genty, Goëry ^a   Wetzel, Benjamin ^b   Dudley, John M ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA;

INPUT PULSE; LINEAR GAIN; LINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RAMAN GAIN; RAMAN RESPONSE; SILICA FIBERS; STABILITY CHARACTERISTICS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSE PROPAGATION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 78649716210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025449     Document Type: Article

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