Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a suspended-core As2S3 chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 9573-9583

  Gao, Weiqing ^a   El Amraoui, Mohammed ^b   Liao, Meisong ^a   Kawashima, Hiroyasu ^a   Duan, Zhongchao ^a   Deng, Dinghuan ^a   Cheng, Tonglei ^a   Suzuki, Takenobu ^a   Messaddeq, Younès ^b   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; WAVELENGTH;

ANOMALOUS REGIONS; DINGER EQUATION; FIBER LENGTH; MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MID-INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM; PEAK POWER; PUMP WAVELENGTH; SHORT FIBER;

FIBERS;

ARSENIC TRISULFIDE; CHALCOGEN; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING;

ARSENICALS; CHALCOGENS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; MINIATURIZATION; SULFIDES;

EID: 84877106646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.009573     Document Type: Article

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