All-fiber chalcogenide-based mid-infrared supercontinuum source

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 345-348

  Gattass, Rafael R ^a   Brandon Shaw, L ^a   Nguyen, V Q ^a   Pureza, P C ^a   Aggarwal, Ishwar D ^b   Sanghera, Jasbinder S ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide fiber; Fiber sources; Mid infrared; Nonlinear optics; Supercontinuum generation

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

ABSORPTION FEATURES; CHALCOGENIDE FIBERS; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; FIBER SOURCES; MID-INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM; MIDINFRARED; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES;

CHALCOGENIDES;

EID: 84867225214     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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