Scalar generalized nonlinear schrödinger equation-quantified continuum generation in an all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber for broadband coherent optical sources

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27872-27884

  Tu, Haohua ^a   Liu, Yuan ^a   Lægsgaard, Jesper ^b   Sharma, Utkarsh ^a   Siegel, Martin ^c   Kopf, Daniel ^c   Boppart, Stephen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c High Q Laser Innovation GmbH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

COHERENT CONTROL; CONTINUUM GENERATIONS; DINGER EQUATION; LASER WAVELENGTH; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EFFECTS; NORMAL DISPERSION; OPTICAL SOURCE; PULSE-SHAPING; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL POWER DENSITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650546406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027872     Document Type: Article

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