Control of near-infrared supercontinuum bandwidth by adjusting pump pulse duration

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10750-10760

  Andreana, M ^a,b   Labruyere A ^a   Tonello, A ^a   Wabnitz, S ^b   Leproux, P ^a,d   Couderc, V ^a   Duterte, C ^c   Cserteg, A ^c   Bertrand, A ^c   Hernandez, Y ^c   Giannone, D ^c   Hilaire, S ^d   Huss, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Multitel   (Belgium)

^d Leukos Innovative Optical Systems   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PUMPS; SOLITONS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

ENERGY EXCHANGES; LONG WAVELENGTH; NEAR INFRARED; PEAK POWER; PUMP LASER; PUMP PULSE; PUMP PULSE ENERGY; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA; TEMPORAL DURATIONS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861167367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010750     Document Type: Article

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