Coherent supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber with all-normal group velocity dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4902-4907

  Hooper, L E ^a   Mosley, P J ^a   Muir, A C ^a   Wadsworth, W J ^a   Knight, J C ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LIGHT VELOCITY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

COMPRESSED PULSE; DEGREE OF COHERENCE; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; SINGLE PULSE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TIME DOMAIN;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 79952615121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004902     Document Type: Article

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