Supercontinuum - broad as a lamp, bright as a laser, now in the mid-infrared

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8381, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Moselund, Peter M ^a   Petersen, Christian ^a   Dupont, Sune ^b   Agger, Christian ^c   Bang, Ole ^c   Keiding, Søren R ^b  

^a NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DIRCM; Mid infrared; nonlinear; Supercontinuum; ZBLAN

Indexed keywords

DIRCM; MIDINFRARED; NONLINEAR; SUPERCONTINUUM; ZBLAN;

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); THULIUM;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84864332644     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.920094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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