Role of pump coherence in the evolution of continuous-wave supercontinuum generation initiated by modulation instability

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 502-512

  Kelleher, Edmund J R ^a   Travers, John C ^a,b   Popov, Sergei V ^a   Taylor, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLITONS; STABILITY; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

A-TRAIN; CONTINUOUS WAVES; FUNDAMENTAL SOLITONS; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; PUMP BANDWIDTH; PUMP INCOHERENCE; PUMP LIGHT; PUMP SOURCES; SPECTRAL EXPANSIONS; SUPERCONTINUA;

PUMPS;

EID: 84857867085     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.000502     Document Type: Article

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