Fabrication and supercontinuum generation in dispersion flattened bismuth microstructured optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21135-21144

  Zhang, Wen Qi ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a   Afshar, Shahraam V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); OPTICAL FIBERS;

DISPERSION PROFILE; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MULTIMODES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 80054947036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021135     Document Type: Article

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