Mid-Infrared 2000-nm bandwidth supercontinuum generation in suspended-core microstructured sulfide and tellurite optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 27083-27093

  Savelii, I ^a   Mouawad, O ^a   Fatome, J ^a   Kibler, B ^a   Desevedavy F ^a   Gadret, G ^a   Jules, J C ^a   Bony, P Y ^a   Kawashima, H ^b   Gao, W ^b   Kohoutek, T ^b   Suzuki, T ^b   Ohishi, Y ^b   Smektala, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FEMTOSECONDS; MID-INFRARED REGIONS; MIDINFRARED; SUPERCONTINUA; TELLURITE FIBER; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; SULFIDE; TELLURIUM; TELLUROUS ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SULFIDES; TELLURIUM;

EID: 84870615666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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