Random walks and random numbers from supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11143-11152

  Wetzel, Benjamin ^a   Blow, Keith J ^b   Turitsyn, Sergei K ^b   Millot, Guy ^c   Larger, Laurent ^a   Dudley, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PHASE FLUCTUATION; PHYSICAL RANDOM NUMBERS; RANDOM NUMBERS; RANDOM WALK; SUPER CONTINUUM;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS;

EID: 84861164265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011143     Document Type: Article

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