Coherent octave spanning near-infrared and visible supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3775-3787

  Heidt, Alexander M ^a,b   Hartung, Alexander ^b   Bosman, Gurthwin W ^a   Krok, Patrizia ^a   Rohwer, Erich G ^a   Schwoerer, Heinrich ^a   Bartelt, Hartmut ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); INFRARED DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

COHERENCE PROPERTIES; FINE STRUCTURES; NEAR INFRARED; NORMAL DISPERSION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL WAVE BREAKING; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL PROFILE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 79951596581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003775     Document Type: Article

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