Dynamics of Raman soliton during supercontinuum generation near the zero-dispersion wavelength of optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10443-10455

  Roy, Samudra ^a   Bhadra, Shyamal K ^b   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; DISPERSION SLOPES; INPUT PULSE; PULSE SPECTRUM; RAMAN SHIFT; RAMAN SOLITON; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TIME DOMAIN; ZERO DISPERSION; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

SOLITONS;

EID: 79957622110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010443     Document Type: Article

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