Generation of wideband frequency combs by continuous-wave seeding of multistage mixers with synthesized dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3331-3344

  Myslivets, Evgeny ^a   Kuo, Bill P P ^a   Alic, Nikola ^a   Radic, Stojan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXERS (MACHINERY); NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; LINEAR COMPRESSORS; MULTIPLE STAGES; NON-LINEAR FIBER; OPTICAL COMBS; PULSED LASER SOURCES; WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84856463043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003331     Document Type: Article

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