Influence of pump power and modulation instability gain spectrum on seeded supercontinuum and rogue wave generation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2875-2885

  Sørensen, Simon Toft ^a   Larsen, Casper ^a   Møller, Uffe ^a   Moselund, Peter M ^b   Thomsen, Carsten L ^b   Bang, Ole ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; SOLITONS; STABILITY;

COHERENT PULSE; DYNAMICAL REGIME; GAIN SPECTRA; HIGH-POWER; INPUT PULSE; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; NOISE PERFORMANCE; NOISE PROPERTIES; PUMP POWER; ROGUE WAVES; SEEDING PROCESS; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84866705794     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.002875     Document Type: Article

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