Broadband third harmonic generation in tapered silica fibres

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8503-8511

  Lee, Timothy ^a   Jung, Yongmin ^a   Codemard, Christophe A ^b   Ding, Ming ^a   Broderick, Neil G R ^c   Brambilla, Gilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Swift Valley Industrial Estate   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MATCHING; SILICA;

CONVERSION RATES; HARMONIC POWER; HIGHER ORDER; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; MICROFIBRES; MODAL CONFINEMENT; NONLINEAR APPLICATIONS; PEAK POWER; PUMP COMPONENTS; SILICA FIBRES; THIRD HARMONIC MODE; THIRD-HARMONIC FREQUENCIES; THIRD-HARMONIC SIGNALS; TRANSITION REGIONS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84860173543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008503     Document Type: Article

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