High-spectral-flatness mid-infrared supercontinuum generated from a Tm-doped fiber amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 834-840

  Geng, Jihong ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Jiang, Shibin ^a  

^a AdValue Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

CHALCOGENIDE FIBERS; MID-INFRARED PULSE; MID-INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL FLATNESS; TM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84863229902     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.000834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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