Power dependence of supercontinuum noise in uniform and tapered PCFs

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2851-2857

  Moller U ^a   Sorensen S T ^a   Jakobsen, C ^b   Johansen, J ^b   Moselund, P M ^b   Thomsen, C L ^b   Bang, O ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CONSTANT LEVEL; HIGH INPUT POWER; INFRARED LOSS; NOISE PROPERTIES; PICOSECONDS; POWER DEPENDENCE; POWER LEVELS; PUMP POWER; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA; TAPERED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84856430451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002851     Document Type: Article

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