Investigating the influence of a weak continuous-wave-trigger on picosecond supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13757-13769

  Li, Qian ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Wong, Kenneth K Y ^b   Lau, Alan Pak Tao ^a   Tsia, Kevin K ^b   Wai, P K A ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLITONS;

ACTIVE CONTROL; BEATING EFFECTS; CONTINUOUS WAVES; HIGHER ORDER; PICOSECONDS; PUMP PULSE; SOLITON FISSION; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TEMPORAL COHERENCE;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 79960481518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013757     Document Type: Article

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