Propagation-length independent SRS threshold in chirally-coupled-core fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22575-22581

  Ma, Xiuquan ^a   Hu, I Ning ^a   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPINNING (FIBERS); STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

FIBER BEAM DELIVERY; MATERIAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; SPECIFIC DESIGN; STOKES WAVE;

FIBERS;

EID: 80755169426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022575     Document Type: Article

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