Deep-blue supercontinnum sources with optimum taper profiles - Verification of GAM

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10635-10645

  Sorensen S T ^a   Moller U ^a   Larsen, C ^a   Moselund, P M ^b   Jakobsen, C ^b   Johansen, J ^b   Andersen, T V ^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

LIGHT SOURCES;

OPTIMISATIONS; SUPERCONTINNUM; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE; TAPER LENGTH;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; PHYSICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84861123839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010635     Document Type: Article

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