Supercontinuum generation in quasi-phasematched waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 18754-18773

  Phillips, C R ^a   Langrock, Carsten ^a   Pelc, J S ^a   Fejer, M M ^a   Hartl, I ^b   Fermann, Martin E ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHASE MODULATION;

NONLINEAR PROCESS; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; PULSE DYNAMICS; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; THIRD ORDER;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 80053265584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018754     Document Type: Article

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