Midinfrared optical rogue waves in soft glass photonic crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 17973-17978

  Buccoliero, Daniel ^a   Steffensen, Henrik ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^b   Monro, Tanya M ^b   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICA; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

BANDWIDTH FLUCTUATIONS; ENERGETIC PULSE; EXTREME EVENTS; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; MIDINFRARED; PICOSECONDS; ROGUE WAVES; SILICA FIBERS; SOFT GLASS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SUPERCONTINUUM; TELLURITE FIBER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 80052774376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017973     Document Type: Article

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