Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenidesilica step-index fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 21003-21010

  Granzow, N ^a   Stark, S P ^a   Schmidt, M A ^a   Tverjanovich, A S ^b   Wondraczek, L ^c   Russell, P St J ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GALLIUM; GERMANIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; SILICA;

1550 NM; CORE DIAMETERS; CORE MODES; DINGER EQUATION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FS PULSE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; NEAR INFRARED; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PULSE ENERGIES; SILICA CAPILLARY; STEP-INDEX FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; ZERO-GROUP VELOCITY;

FIBERS;

EID: 80053940950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021003     Document Type: Article

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