All-solid highly nonlinear singlemode fibers with a tailored dispersion profile

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-80

  Poletti, Francesco ^a   Feng, Xian ^a   Ponzo, Giorgio M ^a   Petrovich, Marco N ^a   Loh, Wei H ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; GLASS FIBERS; HOLEY FIBERS; LIGHT REFRACTION; LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SILICATES; SPINNING (FIBERS);

ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING; DESIGN RULES; DISPERSION PROFILE; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; FLATTENED DISPERSION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; INDEX PROFILE; NON-LINEAR FIBER; SINGLE-MODE GUIDANCE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

FIBERS;

EID: 78651346893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000066     Document Type: Article

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