Five-order SRSs and supercontinuum generation from a tapered tellurite microstructured fiber with longitudinally varying dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15389-15396

  Liao, Meisong ^a   Yan, Xin ^a   Gao, Weiqing ^a   Duan, Zhongchao ^a   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Suzuki, Takenobu ^a   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

1064 NM; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CORE DIAMETERS; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NON-LINEARITY; PUMP PULSE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; WALK-OFF;

FIBERS;

EID: 79961051648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015389     Document Type: Article

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