Fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation in the few-cycle regime

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6635-6647

  Chang, Guoqing ^a   Chen, Li Jin ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CHERENKOV RADIATIONS; CHERENKOV-RADIATION; COHERENCE LENGTHS; CONTINUUM GENERATIONS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LONG PULSE; LOW ENERGIES; NARROW-BAND SPECTRA; NEW APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; PUMP SPECTRUM; ULTRA-FAST; UNIQUE FEATURES; VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH RANGE; VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH SPECTRA; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

RADIATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79953226997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006635     Document Type: Article

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