Dramatic cutoff extension and broadband supercontinuum generation in multi-cycle two color pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9801-9809

  Luo, Jianghua ^a,c   Hong, Weiyi ^a   Zhang, Qingbin ^a   Liu, Kunlong ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

ATOMIC UNITS; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; DRIVING PULSE; ELECTRON WAVE PACKET; MID-INFRARED PULSE; MULTI-CYCLE; PUMP PULSE; SINGLE QUANTUM; SPECTRAL REGION; SUPERCONTINUUM; TWO-COLOR;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

ARTICLE; COLOR; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER;

COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS;

EID: 84861112364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009801     Document Type: Article

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